freebsd6 utilities and proxy

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:01:11PM -0400, Dave wrote: 

    >I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 machine now behind a squid nontransparent 
    >authenticating proxy. The proxy use to be transparent and didn't require 
    >authentication, those requirements now changed, so it now utilizes a 
    >dedicated ip and basic authentication. This is fine for the machine it's on, 
    >but for machines behind it this presents a problem. They run freshclam for 
    >virus updating, csup or portsnap, fetch, and portupgrade and maybe others 
    >not sure if i remembered them all. Is there a simple way i can configure 
    >this box to deal with the new proxy?

Environment variables:

HTTP_PROXY=
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=
FTP_PROXY=

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