Unofficial ISS Linux Web Pages - Proxy Settings

Unofficial ISS Linux Web Pages - Proxy Settings: "Environment Variables

Some software, mostly command line based software, get their proxy settings from a group of enviroment variables.

http_proxy='http://wwwcache.ncl.ac.uk:8080'
https_proxy='http://wwwcache.ncl.ac.uk:8080'
ftp_proxy='http://wwwcache.ncl.ac.uk:8080'

export http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy

You can setup these variables automatically for all users by adding them to the file /etc/profile or the proxyenv files in /etc/profile.d/ depending on your distribution."