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 -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que esta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)