http proxy:suggestion

[Glenn Steen]

On 27/02/2008, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
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>   > -----Original Message-----
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>   > Behalf Of Glenn Steen
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>  > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:24 PM
>   > To: MailScanner discussion
>   > Subject: Re: http proxy:suggestion
>   >
>   > On 26/02/2008, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
>   > >
>   > >
>   > >   > -----Original Message-----
>   > >   > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
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>   > >  > Behalf Of Glenn Steen
>   > >   > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:45 AM
>   > >   > To: MailScanner discussion
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>   > I'm with you all the way Rick, no argument. My sh -c ... thingie
>   > pertains to use in a crontab, to be just that ... upgrade friendly;-)
>   > If the cron version you use don't support setting environment, then
>   > call a shell explicitly that does... oldest "trick" (and very
>   > basic/simple) in the book:-).
>   > So there really is no argument from me.
>   > I to have a vague recollection (and am too lazy to look through the
>   > thread:-) of someone mentioning debian.... well, if James does the
>   > repo thing to ... freshen... things in that department, he can do the
>   > similar thing for that packaging that Jules would do for the
>   > sysconfig
>   > thing (and J-P for the FBSD port ... :-)... And Peter for the
>   > blastwave ...:D
>   >
>
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> I was under the impression that MS wrote the cron entries, but I guess that
>  would work anyway if he just added the prepend. I guess the whole question
>  just doesn't seem to me a MailScanner item. If MS cannot access the web what
>  other issues are likely to occur with other software now/down the road. This
>  issue just seem to be a SysOp (does any one use that term any more?) issue
>  not a MS issue.

Yes, definitely, more a SysAdm/SysOp issue, and just possibly (evry
remotly, depending of course on focus) an issue concerning
packaging...

And then there were two dinosaurs on the list... (Since I know what
you mean by "SysOp" and have been known to use the term
(recently)...:-)

>  Rick
>

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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