From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 27 4:28:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCBD37B5BD for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 04:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id NAA16890; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:22:15 +0100 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id NAA03797; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:20:07 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:20:06 +0100 To: Danny Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO use the Ports behind a firewall Message-ID: <20000227132006.C99703@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <200002261236.NAA47254@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <00022814545200.00536@freebsd.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <00022814545200.00536@freebsd.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:52:21PM +1100, Danny wrote: > Hello, > > -I did what you instructed below > > Modify /root/.profile by adding the following lines :- > > HTTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194:3128 > FTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194 Oh, seems you also want to read the sh manpage about environment variables... :) (hint: no spaces around the = and you need to `export' them too.) And don't put it in root's profile but in yours (unless you actually login as root when you fetch distfiles instead of using su, but in that case you need to modify root's .cshrc, and csh syntax for setting the environment is different too. and doing everything as root is not a good idea anyway...) HTH, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message