[CentOS] Proxy server settings

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:25 PM, paul.greene.va
<paul.greene.va at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm sure this must be a fairly quick and easy configuration, but I have not
> been able to figure it out yet.
>
> How do you configure the proxy settings in the OS itself (not in a browser
> or other application) so that anytime the server tries to get out to the
> internet, that it can direct its traffic to go through a proxy server?
>
> I tried putting the proxy settings in .bash_profile per a tech article I
> found online but that did not work.
>
> The OS is Redhat 7.2.

in /etc/environment add lines like:

export http_proxy="http://proxysrv:3128/"
export https_proxy="http://proxysrv:3128/"
export ftp_proxy="http://proxysrv:3128/"

Yum has it's own config: /etc/yum.conf, you have to add the following
line, near the end of the file:

proxy=http://proxysrv:3128

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Marcelo

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