On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:53:09PM +0200, Andreas Putzo wrote: > Hi, > > On Sep 02 10:15, dann frazier wrote: > > > > The jre provided by openjdk-6-jre (and possibly others) doesn't honor > > the http_proxy environment variable. When I'm behind a proxy, that means I > > need to type something like this: > > > > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -Dhttp.proxyHost=192.168.1.1 > > -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 -jar /usr/share/josm/josm.jar > > > > It would be nice if the /usr/bin/josm script detected an http_proxy > > environment > > variable and automatically added the necessary arguments to the java command > > line for me. > > I don't think this is something we should fix in the josm wrapper script > because this problem affects every java application that somehow tries > to access the network. > But openjdk-6 allows to define system-wide proxy settings > in /etc/java6-openjdk/net.properties. There's also a property > java.net.useSystemProxies which i was told works with the gnome proxy > settings but unfortunately not with $http_proxy. > We can probably improve the josm wrapper to use the environment > variable $JAVA_OPTS to customize the behaviour of the jvm, like > defining proxy or memory settings.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the suggestions! -- dann frazier _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel