On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 08:22:34PM -0500, trondd wrote: > On Mon, January 22, 2018 2:36 am, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:47:15AM -0500, trondd wrote: > >> On Fri, January 19, 2018 4:29 am, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > >> > Hello list! > >> > > >> > I have some machines behind a squid proxy and have set the http_proxy > >> and > >> > ftp_proxy environment variables both in /etc/profile and in > >> > /etc/login.conf > >> > for the default login class. This works well. > >> > > >> > But after an upgrade when rc.firsttime calls fw_update and checks for > >> > binary patches the proxy is not used, so I have to wait for that to > >> time > >> > out or break it with Ctrl-C and call fw_update manually. > >> > > >> > So I just wonder if anybody have an idea of how to set the http_proxy > >> and > >> > ftp_proxy environment variables so they are picked up by rc.firsttime? > >> > > >> > Best regards > >> > -- > >> > > >> > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB > >> > > >> > >> I submitted a patch for this: > >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151260860105270&w=2 > > > > That sure looks like an improvement! But should maybe $http_proxy be > > placed between single quotes? > > > > Unfortunately I fetch the sets into /var/OpenBSD/`machine` and verify them > > before rebooting into /bsd62.rd, so it would not work for me... > > > >> > >> In the meantime, before reboot, you can edit the rc.firstime script > >> after > >> installation. > > > > I'll try that trick next time. Thank you! > > > >> > >> Tim. > > > > -- > > > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB > > > > Ah, I see. Yeah, I only acconted for the obvious case when a net install > was done. > > Having thought about it again, an easier solution will be to write your > http_proxy export to /etc/rc.firsttime before rebooting into bsd.rd. If > you have your update process scripted already, it's an easy additional > line. The installer only appends commands so anything you have in > rc.firsttime will be preserved. > > Tim. >
In my case it would work if rc.firsttime sourced /etc/profile, but I do not know if that is a generally good idea..., in particular since I can not find any way to set environment variables for /etc/rc to pass to system and package daemons. Is this a feature or a missing feature??? -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
