This is a follow-up to my first message to the list (see below). In spite of the fact that - according to your suggestion - I have read every piece of info about ftp and proxies both under man and googling, I'm still unable to pkg_add any package to my openbsd 4.0 installation.
Perhaps this is due to some bias from my wider experience with freebsd. Here you are a typical session and the errors popping up # export ftp_proxy=http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 # FreeBSD style # echo $ftp_proxy http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 # pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/mc-4.6.1p0.tgz Error from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/: ftp: no address associated with name: user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 Can't find ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/mc-4.6.1p0.tgz /usr/sbin/pkg_add: ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/mc-4.6.1p0.tgz:Fatal error Of course, in etc/resolv.conf I ghave the "right nameserver" Please help! Vittorio ----- Messaggio inoltrato da [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Data: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:09:19 +0100 Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rispondi-A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: pkg_add behind a proxy A: [email protected] At office, after having installed a freebsd (OS on which I'm pretty experienced)server, I installed a new (web-)server with openbsd 4.0, OS on which I'm an absolute beginner, even though the experience with the other BSD helps a lot. Now I'm trying to install a basic set of packages under openbsd using the command (similar to the one I use under freebsd): pkg_add -v ftp://.........../package but I'm unable to reach any site because my box is behind a firewall-proxy needing userid and password authentication. I tried defining two environmental variables (as under freebsd) $http_proxy and $ftp_proxy to no avail with openbsd. Google didn't help. How can I define once and for all the userid and password of the proxy? (Please take into account that I'm a beginner) Ciao Vittorio ---------------------------------------------------------------- |- This message was sent using IMP Webmail and Smartmin SSC -| ----- Fine messaggio inoltrato. ----- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |- This message was sent using IMP Webmail and Smartmin SSC -|
