pkg periodic with proxy

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 14 Aug 2014, at 08:58, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit is failing with:
> >pkg: http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2: Permission denied
> >pkg: cannot fetch vulnxml file
> 
> The reason is that this machine needs to go through a proxy; in fact it works if I launch it manually (where I have HTTP_PROXY set).
> 
> How to deal with this without modifying the script itself?

I worked around this here by setting HTTP_PROXY in /etc/crontab.

You could also set it in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf by using PKG_ENV. I didn't, because I run my own repo and I only want a proxy for pkg audit.

> 
> bye & Thanks
>    av.
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