Three responses in thirty minutes....and my friends say Linux has no
support.
Thanks all! :b
-----Original Message-----
From: ^chewie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 11:09 AM
To: Debian User's List
Subject: RE: Apt & Firewall variable
From: Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"I'm reading a Debian Installation & Guide to use book and
it states
that I can put in a variable to let apt know that you have a
firewall/proxy between you and the outside world.
"The variable (# export http_proxy=http://gateway:1234/) is
to be
typed into the command line...but is there a file where I
can put that
into so I don't have to type it whenever I want to apt-get
something?"
Well, there are a couple places. If you'd like the
http_proxy
environment variable to apply to your execution of Apt
alone, then you
can rename apt-get to apt-get.real and write a wrapper
script called
"apt-get".
The script would look something like this:
#!/bin/sh
######################################################################
## Apt-get wrapper script: to set environment variables
before
## executing apt-get.
## Last update: xxxx/xx/xx
# Set proxy env. var.
HTTP_PROXY="http://my.proxy:<port>" ; export HTTP_PROXY
# Call apt-get.real and pass any parameters
/usr/bin/apt-get.real $@
## End script
If you want the environment variable to apply to your login
shell, and
therefore all programs, put the HTTP_PROXY line in your
.bash_profile. Case is important, so if the variable is
supposed to
be "http_proxy", use that.
Later!
^chewie
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