On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 15:01 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:42 +0000, Shane Kelly wrote:
> > Yousef Raffah wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:41 +0000, Shane Kelly wrote:
> > >> Hi Yousef,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> I have to connect through a proxy server to get to the internet but I'm
> > >>> not sure how to set the proxy for curl. I tried to change the line
> > >>> in /var/lib/spamassassin/rules_du_jour
> > >>> To this:
> > >>> [ "${CURL_OPTS}" ] || CURL_OPTS="-w %{http_code} --compressed -O -R -s
> > >>> -S -z -x proxy.nour.net.sa:8080";
> > >>>
> > >>> as I understood from man curl that -x is the parameter to use for a
> > >>> proxy server!
> > >>>
> > >>> The only relevant thread I found so far is this:
> > >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/76192
> > >>> but I have the outbound port 80 open and it is confirmed as when I
> > >>> invoke the script manually (not through cron) it works perfectly (at
> > >>> least that is what I see :) )
> > >> I suspect you need to set your proxy settings in the crontab, as most
> > >> recent crons run with a clean environment for security. (I got bitten by
> > >> the same thing :-) )
> > >>
> > > Hummm, that's pretty interesting, will test and let you know, because I
> > > though I had it already. Just out of curiousity, should I specify the
> > > proxy (export the variables in crontab) or the environment variable
> > > should just be "there"? Currently I have the variable set for the root
> > > user in the bash profile
> >
> > I have these as lines above the cron entries in the system crontab (i.e.
> > /etc/crontab) on a Suse 9.3 system, but below the shell, path and mailto
> > vars. Both wget and curl pick them up from there.
> >
> > HTTP_PROXY='http://wwwcache.xxx.xx.uk:8080'
> > http_proxy='http://wwwcache.xxx.xx.uk:8080'
> >
> Cool, I just configured it. Will let you know if it worked tonight ;).
> Many thanks.
>
Unfortunately it didn't work out :/ Could it be the double quotes? I
always have problems whether it is a single or double quote!Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator SSIS - The Savola Group -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at getfirefox.com yousef.raffah.com
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