I'm attaching here the answer to a mail of mine on a simmilar subject. The suggested solutions is working smoothly & flawlessly for me under freebsd 5.2.1 & 5.3.
Ciao Vittorio On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:55:43 +0000, Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Old linux user now moving gradually to freebsd 5.2.1, at office we have > a lan > 1) with an http proxy for which authentication via userid & passwd is > needed AND > 2) ftp is blocked, not permitted. > > I want to use the ports and compile my programs. I have already tried to > set the http proxy (as under linux, by the way!) issuing: > > env HTTP_PROXY="http://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080" > > to no avail; freebsd complains endlessly that > ............................... > fetch: ftp://............: Host not found > ............................. Try putting in the following in /etc/make.conf FETCH_ENV= FTP_PROXY=http://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 FETCH_ENV= HTTP_PROXY=http://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 To be honest, haven't tried it with authentication but the above would be the correct way to make use of a proxy for ports. Nelis _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
