Create a new system variable

Matthew Benjamin msbenjamin at fedex.com
Thu Apr 8 19:45:17 UTC 2004


I really appreciate the GOOD suggestions I tried it however it still
does not work. Do you think it's a bug in Fedora Core 1? I tried Keven
and Martin's suggestions also to no avail. All of these work from just a
command line but once in the cron it flakes out. 

-----Original Message-----
From: duncan brown [mailto:duncanbrown at atom.csionline.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:20 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Create a new system variable


matt,
you want to create a wrapper script, OR have the export of your
http_proxy var on your crontab line seperated from your command by an ;
or &&

; means that it'll run the following command whether or not the first
one succeeded && means that it'll only run it if the previous command
completed successfully

if this is for apt (apt-get / apt-cache), then you can modify the
apt.conf file (do a search for the word proxy) and you can set it up in
there and be set.

now, you could also create a wrapper script

create /usr/local/bin/my_wrapper (or whatever you want to call it)

here are the contents

-cut --------------

#!/bin/bash

export http_proxy='http://www.myproxy.com:80/'

the command

-cut --------------

now, run this

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/my_wrapper

this makes the script executable.

now add /usr/local/bin/my_wrapper to your crontab.

-d

Matthew Benjamin said:
> Can someone tell me how to create a system variable. For instance I 
> would like to create a variable called http_proxy that will be 
> available for a cronjob. This requires the variable to be available to

> the process when no one is logged in. Export does not work because it 
> disappears when you log off. editing the /etc/profile file to include 
> this does not work because the variable is created as an environment 
> variable and only exits while you're logged on. That's my dilemma. 
> Please help.
>
> mattB.


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