Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-18 Thread Bill Shirley
The OP was talking about running a centralized proxy. Put this in /etc/profile or /etc/inputrc (can't remember which) per machine. Sorry not to have spelled it out. Bill On 11/18/2014 4:22 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 18Nov2014 02:31, Bill Shirley wrote: You can put this in your ~/.bashr

Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 18Nov2014 02:31, Bill Shirley wrote: You can put this in your ~/.bashrc: export http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128"; export ftp_proxy="ftp://127.0.0.1:3128"; They both need to be "http://127.0.0.1:3128/";; the proxy protocol is HTTP, hence the same scheme for each. Also https_proxy. Of cour

Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-17 Thread Bill Shirley
You can put this in your ~/.bashrc: export http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128"; export ftp_proxy="ftp://127.0.0.1:3128"; I'm not sure how many utilities use it but I think wget does. Bill On 11/16/2014 8:18 AM, Alexis Jeandet wrote: Le 15/11/2014 07:17, Tim a écrit : On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 13:

Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-16 Thread Alexis Jeandet
Le 15/11/2014 07:17, Tim a écrit : > On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 13:55 +0100, Alexis Jeandet wrote: >> my question was more about apps like YUM/DNF which doesn't care about >> gnome config and doesn't like pac files. My thoughts are that I should >> write maybe a simple scripts triggered by network mana

Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-14 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 13:55 +0100, Alexis Jeandet wrote: > my question was more about apps like YUM/DNF which doesn't care about > gnome config and doesn't like pac files. My thoughts are that I should > write maybe a simple scripts triggered by network manager which > configures everything dependi

Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Nov2014 13:55, Alexis Jeandet wrote: Thanks, it's what we already use on gnome, my question was more about apps like YUM/DNF which doesn't care about gnome config and doesn't like pac files. My thoughts are that I should write maybe a simple scripts triggered by network manager which config

Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-14 Thread Alexis Jeandet
Hi Tim, Thanks, it's what we already use on gnome, my question was more about apps like YUM/DNF which doesn't care about gnome config and doesn't like pac files. My thoughts are that I should write maybe a simple scripts triggered by network manager which configures everything depending on the cur

Re: User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-14 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 11:01 +0100, Alexis Jeandet wrote: > So my question is: Is there any way to have a centralised proxy config > with a simple GUI? If you look through the configuration menus (of course this is harder if you use a desktop that has abandoned putting things in organised menus), y

User friendly proxy configuration

2014-11-14 Thread Alexis Jeandet
Hi, I try to convince my colleagues to switch to Fedora as much as I can, they all like it! But in my lab we connect through a web proxy and I have to say that changing the config on both gnome and yum/dnf is quite boring. Also new linux users are sometime afraid when I tell them "you just need to