lynx on 4.8-stable

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Fri May 30 23:57:56 PDT 2003


On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:17:15AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote:
> I recently installed 4.8-stable. When running 
> lynx, I can only access sites outside my LAN by launching lynx 
> as root. I can't access external sites if I launch lynx using 
> sudo or after su-ing to root.

It sounds like something is setting either the http_proxy or
HTTP_PROXY environment variables when you log in as a normal user.
Could you have changed /etc/login.conf or some one of the
.cshrc/.login/.profile files?

	Daivd.


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