[wplug] Environment Variables

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 12:22:03 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 12:17 -0400, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> I have been using Redhat and Fedora for several year and just about
> know how to configure it.  I am currently testing a Debian
> installation and cannot get some applications to access the web (NTP,
> etc).  I notice that when I open a terminal that my http_proxy
> variable does not include the authentication data.  I assume that this
> is why the Gnome apps are not able to access the web.
>  
> Does anyone know where Debian stores the Environment Variables used by
> the Gnome desktop?  I have searched the internet to no avail.

As far as text files go, no, but System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy
could help...

And I think if you have it set in your .profile before you login (in the
http://name:pass@proxy/ format) it should work as well.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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