On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:59 -0500, Dave Lester wrote: > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:14:11 +0800 > > From: "Art Fore" <art.fore@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: internet access via proxy server > > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: > > <102c2a980611300114l4a60eee6hd95587a20dae7f31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > I am trying to add software and/or update, but machine cannot reach > > internet. I know about the proxy for the browser, but setting it still does > > not help even the web browser. I cannot even ping my desktop machine from > > the server machine, but I can ping the server from the desktop and I can use > > NX an/or SSH from the desktop to the server machine. The other machines in > > the office can also access the samba shares on the server with windows. > > > > Art > > > > > > On my linux server at work, I use the following: > > In /etc/profile.d I have a file called proxy.sh > > The contents of proxy.sh look like this: > > #proxy.sh > export http_proxy=http://username:password@myprosyserver:port/ > export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@myprosyserver:port/ > export no_proxy=http://username:password@myprosyserver:port/ > export HTTP_PROXY=http://username:password@myprosyserver:port/ > export FTP_PROXY=http://username:password@myprosyserver:port/ > > chmod 755 proxy.sh to set it executable. > > I use yum with this and it works great. You might have to fiddle with > the settings if you don't use username/password authentication on your > proxy server. Also, you should check in /etc/bashrc for this for loop: > > for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do > if [ -r "$i" ]; then > . $i > fi > done > > > If you don't have this, you will need to add it so that the proxy.sh is > called when bash starts up. > > Hope this helps! > Thanks for the info. Will try that this morning when I go to work in about an hour and a half. Art
