From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 15:13:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A817437B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA46899; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:13:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:13:09 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: lscolby@gwirynybyd.com Cc: questions@FreeBsd.org Subject: Re: using ports through a proxy In-Reply-To: <20000831220044.2770.cpmta@c000.snv.cp.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31 Aug 2000 lscolby@gwirynybyd.com wrote: :Hello: : :I've installed freebsd 4.0 as contained in The Complete FreeBSD Book. : :I've configured KDE kfm and Netscape so they can work through the proxy/firewall used at which I am working. : :However, I can not find documentation on how to use make and make install through a firewall/proxy when when building a port. : :/stand/sysinstall ftp proxy - firewall does not work. : :Neither does the ftp command. : :I can use Netscape and KDE kfm to download files, but its getting very old. : :Please direct me to documentation. set the HTTP_PROXY variable to point to your proxy. man fetch should tell you what you want to know. David : : :Thanks, : : : :Colby : : : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message