internet access via proxy server

[Art Fore]

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 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: internet access via proxy server
> > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at 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
> >
> >   
> 
> 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