-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- on Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: > 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? > > Jon > > > "God, Root. What is the difference?" > Pitr, User Friendly > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
hiho, write the proxy statement in your .bashrc, .bash_profile or /etc/profile. but you can also set this variable in /etc/apt/apt.conf (on newer (>3.x) versions, i think ). ciao -ap ___________________________________________________________________ Andreas Piesk [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Manager BFW GmbH Leipzig pgp fingerprint: 23CB A7E2 2E53 373C DBCD 8EFC 7777 61C1 ___________________________________________________________________ What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator. ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: zkPIw97tWH0gHOd7keoGif78v+tvLicN iQEVAwUBN8/jiGFk4I9f3qPhAQE3WQgAkuFjCMqwvkQLddi8MMtIq9nC2VV3wNsj Pa2OAPki4NoWn3hl49mCf2Kzv1iVWrOvqRQzNaDjBiZWQsqtXA+IcHp3FjYQzmB4 D+/rfN8Az8hIPdK97JQQl36WHFjipS0hiuybrxzlO7zLquoSBe2UlAJEItzZNgy7 DZD+oboIrZSbKri+j22S7mZOpqVR118cVM3vkJd3UIZA2uxbiHkzAx+83YJhs3SD TTcdZuIVNs5k0UGBgLFuA4wusjm8NJxJeE6Zj/ksWjN6xrUFRX3rdhrtRSjDKxb8 gk37DnyN0acq3NqJaSVcF5u8w90fzQiC1yBDgrZ//5vgSEv2kimGBg== =42A8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
