export proxy via profile.d

cuco76 · 02-07-2011, 06:47 PM

So I've always added an export line in the /etc/profile that has the proxy server for our organization. Now there is a warning in that file that I should use a custom .sh in the profile.d folder. Can I just create a myproxy.sh with the export http_proxy="insert my proxy" line in it and call it a day or do I have to do some crazy shell script?

Any assistance would be appreciated!

Thanks,

gilead · 02-07-2011, 07:43 PM

Yes you can - on my system, the files in /etc/profile.d all have a mode of 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) and are owned by root. As an example, here is /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh:

Code:

ls -l /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 148 2010-05-09 11:47 /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh

cat /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh 
#!/bin/sh
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib64/java
export MANPATH="${MANPATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/man"
export PATH="${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/jre/bin"

cuco76 · 02-08-2011, 07:42 PM

Thank you very much. I will look at that first thing tomorrow!