On 11 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > At work, our internet access is from a proxyserver. Is there anyway > > I can set dselect on my Debian 2.2r2 laptop to access through the > > proxyserver, while I'm at work. > > $ export http_proxy="http://foobar/" # or ftp_proxy? > $ dselect > > I don't know, wether other dselect methods than apt honor http_proxy. > > moritz >
The problem I have with this (which I've tried) is that I can't set the proxy using a port number ie. "http://foobar:80". We have an autoproxy that we have to point at. Is there a way around that? -- -bob Remember the... the... uhh..... ********************************************************************** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. * MS 0847 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Albuquerque NM 87185-0847 * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (505) 844-8606 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr * Fax: (505) 844-9297 * **********************************************************************

