From 4016cea133051dfbeb84d26802f44b2b774a81eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Sampson Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:11:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document proxy usage in README. --- README | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 52f9d96..a73611e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ looks something like this: (If you don't know how to use cron, then "man crontab" is probably a good start.) This will run rawdog every ten minutes. +If you want rawdog to fetch URLs through a proxy server, then set your +"http_proxy" environment variable appropriately; depending on your version of +cron, putting something like: + +http_proxy=http://myproxy.mycompany.com:3128/ + +at the top of your crontab should be appropriate. (The http_proxy variable will +work for many other programs too.) + In the event that rawdog gets horribly confused (for instance, if your system clock has a huge jump and it thinks it won't need to fetch anything for the next thirty years), you can forcibly clear its state by removing the -- 2.35.1