Brian Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Wayne Boucher wrote:
>
>
>> At the same time I have changed the protocol used in the UpdateAgent when
>> installing a new release from ftp to http, which will hopefully get around
>> some firewall issues.
>>
>
> You'll most likely still need to have the http_proxy environment variable
> set, depending on whether your site forces you to access the outside world
> via a local web proxy/cache though. A convenient way to achieve this on
> many LINUX distributions is to create files:
>
> /etc/profiles.d/http_proxy.sh:
> declare -x http_proxy=<your.proxy.here:port>
>
> /etc/profiles.d/http_proxy.csh:
> setenv http_proxy <your.proxy.here:port>
>
> so that you don't have to remeber to do it manually all the time. This is
> also a handy place to create files that set the environment variables for
> analysis etc.
>
>
You will indeed. The changes were made because some proxys (e.g. squid
which we have to work with at Leeds) don't act as ftp proxies
regards
gary
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