On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:59 -0500, Dave Lester wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:14:11 +0800
> From: "Art Fore" <art.fore(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: internet access via proxy server
> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
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> 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
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>
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