On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: > grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example > 144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the > appropriate "export > 145:# ftp_proxy=<proxy>" and "export http_proxy=<proxy>" lines to > /etc/profile if > > > So it appears "/etc/profile" is the appropriate file.
I'm not sure that a cron job can see the variables set by /etc/profile. IIRC, even PATH is unavailable to cron jobs. Only a few predefined variables are set ($HOME, $SHELL and a few others which I don't recall now). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
