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From: Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:55:46
Message-Id: 45901D14.20508@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
2 > On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example
6 >> 144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the
7 >> appropriate "export
8 >> 145:# ftp_proxy=<proxy>" and "export http_proxy=<proxy>" lines to
9 >> /etc/profile if
10 >>
11 >>
12 >> So it appears "/etc/profile" is the appropriate file.
13 >>
14 >
15 > I'm not sure that a cron job can see the variables set by /etc/profile.
16 > IIRC, even PATH is unavailable to cron jobs. Only a few predefined
17 > variables are set ($HOME, $SHELL and a few others which I don't recall
18 > now).
19 >
20
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22 It sounds logical and I think the vars available to cron are in
23 /etc/crontab. There remains the other solution - to set the vars from
24 the same script which runs wget. ;-)
25
26 Thank you very much!
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29 Best regards,
30 Daniel
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