This could be useful for suggestion #2, gnome-network-properties while applying system proxies could use /etc/profile.d/
Creating the following files in /etc/profile.d, and then this will work in *any* shell for *any* user of the system #proxy.sh export http_proxy=http://host.com:port/ export ftp_proxy=http://host.com:port/ export no_proxy=.domain.com export HTTP_PROXY=http://host.com:port/ export FTP_PROXY=http://host.com:port/ #proxy.csh setenv http_proxy http://host.com:port/ setenv ftp_proxy http://host.com:port/ setenv no_proxy .domain.com setenv HTTP_PROXY http://host.com:port/ setenv FTP_PROXY http://host.com:port/ Source: www.fedoraforum.org/forum/printthread.php?t=742 -- wget does not use network proxy in some cases https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232469 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs