On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:27:02AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Bill Allombert] > > Why ? /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest is also a conffile. > > To avoid questions during upgrade. We as the package maintainers are > unlikely to edit /etc/popularity-contest.conf as part of the package > (as it isn't a conffile, but might end up modifying > /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest, and if the sysadmin edits > /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest it will give him more work during > upgrades than editing /etc/popularity-contest.conf.
So are you suggesting we apply my proposed change to /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest ? if [ -n "$HTTP_PROXY" ]; then export http_proxy="$HTTP_PROXY"; fi or something better ? > > On the other hand do you know systems that use http_proxy ? How they > > do that. > > I believe it is normally set using /etc/environment for systems were > it should be set globally. I was not sure if /etc/environment was affecting cronjob, but it seems to be the case, so this should work already. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
