Environment variables?

[JJ Neff]

I assume you want to set this up becasue you are behind a firewall?

I use the same setting and it is merely
http_proxy="http://<username>:<password>@<proxyserver>:<port>"

Typically the username is all you need but sometimes you need on some MS
proxies. Port is typically 80 and if you have resolv.conf setup or DHCP gives
you a DNS server Proxy can be the name of the server.


Just put this setting in ~/.bash_profile (I think) maybe ~/.bashrc ?  Someone
correct me for a Debian system?

And everytime you logon you will get it .  I think the Universal environment
variables are in /etc/bashrc

JJN
--- Jeff Blank <jblank at didonato.cc> wrote:
> just a quick and simple question...
> 
> I have looked around through a number of howto's  (everyone that seems 
> relevant to me ;) and also a number of books on linux from the library and 
> can find very little to no info on them.  I am trying to set the http_proxy 
> variable at startup so that I can use the gui apt programs in debian to 
> upgrade and work with packages.  Any help would be ghreatly appreciated.
> 
> Jeff Blank
> 


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