on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:22:46AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'll get to the point: > > My system is behind a proxy at my ISP... everything I run that can use > a proxy recognises http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables. > (apt-get, wget, lynx, etc) > > So it seems logical to only need to set this in one place, right? > > Where would that place be? > > I tried /etc/environment - and that works for my login shells (bash > as root, zsh as user) ... but isn't seen from scripts run from cron. > > Is there any recommended way to make a an environment truly global? > Is there something I've missed?
RTFM: man 5 crontab.
An active line in a crontab will be either an environment setting or
a cron command. An environment setting is of the form,
name = value
Set your cron environment in your crontab.
Peace.
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