Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 11 June 2005 21:03, Stan Glasoe wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2005 10:13 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > You need to set the proxy settings locally for your regular user. The
> > full online update runs as root so it uses /root/.curlrc for its proxy
> > settings. The susewatcher process runs as the normal user, so you need
> > a /home/<user>/.curlrc with the proxy settings. Just copy it from /root/
>
> OK, then it's education time for me from Anders!
>
> On my system, neither root nor any user has a ~/.curlrc.  curl and
> compat-curl2 are installed. Proxy settings are configured globally via
> YaST, Network Services. I hadn't logged into KDE as root since updating to
> 9.3 so I did, ran SuSEwatcher to check for updates then logged out.
> No .curlrc anywhere. Checked the 9.2 backups and there isn't any .curlrc
> there either.
>
> Am I or my system missing something here?

Yes, an authenticating proxy.

I should have mentioned that the curlrc is only needed if you need a username 
and password to log into the proxy. The actual proxy server and port settings 
are taken from one of the *_proxy environment variables.