Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > 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). >
It sounds logical and I think the vars available to cron are in /etc/crontab. There remains the other solution - to set the vars from the same script which runs wget. ;-) Thank you very much! -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
