From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 18:28:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14955 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:28:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14946 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from nikki (slip129-37-208-11.oh.us.ibm.net [129.37.208.11]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA73044 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 01:28:19 GMT Message-Id: <199810180128.BAA73044@out4.ibm.net> From: "Michael G." To: "FBSDQ" Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:17:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Running thru Proxy Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This was a great question to come across....I'm trying to install 3.0 using a boot disk and ftp'ing through a windows proxy server...so I need to set the environment variable...any suggestions on what the fetch man page might say...since I can't read it yet ..thanks Doug! Michael G. On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:02:02 -0700 (PDT), Doug White wrote: >On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Patrick Seal wrote: > >> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7 behind a proxy. I can get programs like >> netscape to work, but how do I get programs like 'ftp' and stuff? > >Try setting the environment variable FTP_PROXY as described in the fetch >man page. Or try passive mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message