From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 0:28:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D940214CE2 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11952; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:25:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24209; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:25:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA52741; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:25:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990418092544.A52732@sr.se> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:25:44 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Mark Holloway Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Install Ports behing Proxy Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <3718A88C.9BA66FF8@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3718A88C.9BA66FF8@yahoo.com>; from Mark Holloway on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:28:12AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:28:12AM -0700, Mark Holloway wrote: > I just recently added a FreeBSD box to an existing network. The IP is > 172.16.0.xxx and there is one NT machine running Wingate. For > simplicity sake we're using Socks. > > Is there a way to let FreeBSD 3.x know that it's behind a Socks Proxy so > when I download a port and run the "make all isntall" it know what to > do? Unlike Netscape, I can't find any way to tell FreeBSD to use > SOCKS.... Try the parameters FTP_PROXY=my.proxy.server and FTP_PASSWORD=me@my.place -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message