Pretty sad to respond to my own posting, but I'm desperate. :-) Is there noone who can help me with that? I'm on a satellite uplink and _have_ to use the proxy. Thanks, Andy.
> I am trying to tune apt-get to use my proxy (squid) when downloading files > via ftp, but it doesn't connect anymore when I write this file: > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20proxy > with this content: > -------------------------- > Acquire > { > ftp > { > Proxy "ftp://proxy:3128/"; > }; > }; > -------------------------- > > Or: > Proxy "http://proxy:3128/"; > > All I get is this: > > hamster:~#apt-get install wine > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > libcupsys2 libwine wine-utils > 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 864 not upgraded. > Need to get 5405kB of archives. After unpacking 423kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > 0% [Logging in] > Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org woody/main libcupsys2 1.1.12-4 > Server closed the connection > 0% [Logging in] > Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org woody/main wine 0.0.20011226-1 > Server closed the connection > 0% [Logging in] > ... > > But the cache _does_ work. Proof: > hamster:~>telnet proxy 3128 > Trying 192.168.96.3... > Connected to proxy.int.radiomaranon.org.pe. > Escape character is '^]'. > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong? > Thanks, > Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ ------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) ----- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ ---- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ _\_v ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A loving heart is the truest wisdom. -- Charles Dickens