Running bsdstats through a proxy

[Marc G Fournier]

You should be able to just add them to /etc/periodic.conf … bsdstats on FreeBSD will read its environment variables from there …



> On Nov 14, 2017, at 23:45, Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 15/11/2017 05:19, Olivier wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to enable bsdstats to run, but I need to configure a proxy.
>> 
>> I see it rely on the environment variable HTTP_PROXY, but where should I
>> define it so that it is used by the monthly periodic script and by
>> bsdstats launched at boot?
>> 
>> TIA,
>> 
>> Olivier
>> 
> 
> /etc/login.conf should work for you.  You can add whatever environment
> settings you want to the  :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K:\ line.
> 
> Remember to run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' after editing the file.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
>