I see now that the more important issue for me was that I need to make sure that my wget settings are appropriate for whether I'm behind my work proxy-server or not, otherwise wget sits there trying to find the proxy server.
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently I've had problems starting JHS. Essentially when starting > init_jhs_ the system would appear to hang. > When starting from a Linux terminal,( start jconsole, load > 'ide/jhs/core' and then init_jhs_ '' ) the J console session appeared > to hang. If I used Ctrl+C things would then start as normal. > > I finally took some time to track down the problem and it appears to > be a problem in getexternalip_jhs_ that tries to use wget to access > the website http://www.check-ip.eu. > The issue is that this website doesn't appear to exist any longer. > > Any suggestions for alternative sites or approaches to do the same thing? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
