Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 17 January 2009 06:30:45 Mike Kazantsev wrote:

> And since you're using gentoo you can also pass rsync traffic through
> a proxy. Rsync (as well as wget and lots of other tools) will use proxy
> automatically if RSYNC_PROXY (http_proxy/ftp_proxy for other apps,
> lower- and uppercase) env var is set.
> For squid to pass rsync traffic you'll need to specify rsync ports in
> squid.conf, like this:
>
> acl SSL_ports port 873          # rsync
> acl Safe_ports port 873         # rsync

Another way, of course, is to run rsyncd on one machine on the network, and 
point the other machines to it for emerge --sync. This is getting a bit 
off-topic, though.

-- 
Rgds
Peter