Hi, On 10/17/05, O'Flynn, Tom - Computing Technician <Tom.O'Flynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am trying to use ftp to connect to the Mcafee website from one of my linux servers. As it is behind the proxy I have to set the ftp_proxy variable for text based ftp to work. Which ftp klient are you using? Try to set the http_proxy variable export http_proxy=http://web.cashe.proxy:XXXX/ > In accordance with RedHat instructions from knowledge base article 4690 I am creating the variable as follows: > > export ftp_proxy=http://proxy_server:xxxx/ > > where proxy_server is the name of our proxy server and xxxx is the port number. > > Unfortunately it does not seem to work. I have also tried a number of variations of the above command such as, > > export ftp_proxy=proxy_server:xxxx/ > export ftp_proxy=ftp://proxy_server:xxxx/ > > I've even tried leaving out the foward slash at the end of the command and all to no avail. I can actually get to the ftp site no bother from the sever when I use a web browser so it is not a network issue. > Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? > > Tom > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
