A sole, standard proxy library for Fedora

Ryan Hodges rhodges at cisco.com
Sat May 27 15:51:26 UTC 2006


Has this ever been discussed as part of the Linux Standards Base 
specification.  It seems like this would be a good place for a proposal 
to take shape.

Thanks,
Ryan


Leszek Matok wrote:
> Dnia 27-05-2006, sob o godzinie 15:33 +0200, Aurelien Bompard
> napisał(a):
>> How about having a file in /etc/profile.d, say proxy.sh and proxy.csh (yeah,
>> that's two, well, you get the point) containing this:
> My tcsh reads its profile only when it starts up. It means I have to
> close every session I have in order to use the change. I thought this
> thread was about preventing this (and not introducing :)) using a
> library that re-checks the configuration every time any application
> tries to download something, without the need to restart it. Your
> proposal not only demands that I have to cancel and restart e.g. wget
> -c, it also requires me to log out and log in again. That's unacceptable
> for some people.
> 
> I know I can just source the files any time I want, but we're talking
> about doing things automatically :)
> 
> Lam
> 




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