On 25 December 2006 20:31, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example > > 144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the > > appropriate "export > > 145:# ftp_proxy=<proxy>" and "export http_proxy=<proxy>" lines to > > /etc/profile if > > > > > > So it appears "/etc/profile" is the appropriate file. > > I'm not sure that a cron job can see the variables set by /etc/profile. > IIRC, even PATH is unavailable to cron jobs. Only a few predefined > variables are set ($HOME, $SHELL and a few others which I don't recall > now).
So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that script! Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
