Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:32:00 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mark Holloway <mlholloway@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Ports behing Proxy Message-ID: <199904191832.TAA00751@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:28:12 PDT." <3718A88C.9BA66FF8@yahoo.com>
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> 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....
I do this with the following script under -current (rfetch):
#! /bin/sh
exec runsocks ftp -pV "$@"
I then set ``rfetch'' in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:
FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/rfetch
> Regards,
> Mark
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