I really appreciate the GOOD suggestions I tried it however it still does not work. Do you think it's a bug in Fedora Core 1? I tried Keven and Martin's suggestions also to no avail. All of these work from just a command line but once in the cron it flakes out. -----Original Message----- From: duncan brown [mailto:duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:20 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Create a new system variable matt, you want to create a wrapper script, OR have the export of your http_proxy var on your crontab line seperated from your command by an ; or && ; means that it'll run the following command whether or not the first one succeeded && means that it'll only run it if the previous command completed successfully if this is for apt (apt-get / apt-cache), then you can modify the apt.conf file (do a search for the word proxy) and you can set it up in there and be set. now, you could also create a wrapper script create /usr/local/bin/my_wrapper (or whatever you want to call it) here are the contents -cut -------------- #!/bin/bash export http_proxy='http://www.myproxy.com:80/' the command -cut -------------- now, run this chmod +x /usr/local/bin/my_wrapper this makes the script executable. now add /usr/local/bin/my_wrapper to your crontab. -d Matthew Benjamin said: > Can someone tell me how to create a system variable. For instance I > would like to create a variable called http_proxy that will be > available for a cronjob. This requires the variable to be available to > the process when no one is logged in. Export does not work because it > disappears when you log off. editing the /etc/profile file to include > this does not work because the variable is created as an environment > variable and only exits while you're logged on. That's my dilemma. > Please help. > > mattB. -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
