At  7:57 pm, Friday, March 28 2003, Simon Males mumbled:
> In respect to proxies..., we all need to authentic to a proxy to surf 
> (user/pass), i worked out in .bash_profile to add and export HTTP_PROXY. 
> But how do i add user and password?
> 
Supposedly http_proxy="http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080/". No idea if
that works, mind you.

> I dont really want to add it to .bash_profile. Was kind of that seti 
> would prompt me for it. Are proxies and SOCKS related?? Should i use the 
> socks triggers?
> 
Well, you could run seti as so: 'http_proxy="as above" ./setiathome'
That would pass the http_proxy environment variable to setiathome, but not
to the rest of the environment.

Cheers,
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                                           Steve
<jaq> how about MTBF?  scsi will once again rise high and rule with a metal
fist
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