On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:42 +0000, Shane Kelly wrote:
> Yousef Raffah wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:41 +0000, Shane Kelly wrote:
> >> Hi Yousef,
> >>
> >>
> >>> I have to connect through a proxy server to get to the internet but I'm
> >>> not sure how to set the proxy for curl. I tried to change the line
> >>> in /var/lib/spamassassin/rules_du_jour
> >>> To this:
> >>> [ "${CURL_OPTS}" ] || CURL_OPTS="-w %{http_code} --compressed -O -R -s
> >>> -S -z -x proxy.nour.net.sa:8080";
> >>>
> >>> as I understood from man curl that -x is the parameter to use for a
> >>> proxy server!
> >>>
> >>> The only relevant thread I found so far is this:
> >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/76192
> >>> but I have the outbound port 80 open and it is confirmed as when I
> >>> invoke the script manually (not through cron) it works perfectly (at
> >>> least that is what I see :) )
> >> I suspect you need to set your proxy settings in the crontab, as most
> >> recent crons run with a clean environment for security. (I got bitten by
> >> the same thing :-) )
> >>
> > Hummm, that's pretty interesting, will test and let you know, because I
> > though I had it already. Just out of curiousity, should I specify the
> > proxy (export the variables in crontab) or the environment variable
> > should just be "there"? Currently I have the variable set for the root
> > user in the bash profile
>
> I have these as lines above the cron entries in the system crontab (i.e.
> /etc/crontab) on a Suse 9.3 system, but below the shell, path and mailto
> vars. Both wget and curl pick them up from there.
>
> HTTP_PROXY='http://wwwcache.xxx.xx.uk:8080'
> http_proxy='http://wwwcache.xxx.xx.uk:8080'
>
Cool, I just configured it. Will let you know if it worked tonight ;).
Many thanks.Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator SSIS - The Savola Group -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at getfirefox.com yousef.raffah.com
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