http proxy:suggestion

[Scott Silva]

on 2/27/2008 5:44 AM Glenn Steen spake the following:
> On 27/02/2008, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
>>
>>   > -----Original Message-----
>>   > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>   > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
>>   > Behalf Of Glenn Steen
>>
>>  > 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
>>   > >   > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
>>   > >
>>   > >  > Behalf Of Glenn Steen
>>   > >   > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:45 AM
>>   > >   > To: MailScanner discussion
>>   > >
>>
>> [...]
>>   > >
>>   > 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
>>   >
>>
>>
>> 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
Glenn,
You can't be "that" old. You can still see a keyboard, and I see many posts 
from you long after 6:00 PM your time ;-P


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