One of my Red Hat servers is behind proxy with no access to the outside world. This box is registered to a Satellite server to receive software updates. I want to install Zabbix server on this server using the packages from Zabbix upstream directly. To do this, I need to set the proxy for the Zabbix’s repository. There are a few ways to do this. For my purpose, the best place is to set proxy=proxy_server directly in the .repo file. ...
To enable CPAN behind proxy: # perl -MCPAN -e shell Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402) Enter 'h' for help. cpan[1]> o conf init /proxy/ If you're accessing the net via proxies, you can specify them in the CPAN configuration or via environment variables. The variable in the $CPAN::Config takes precedence. <ftp_proxy> Your ftp_proxy? [] <http_proxy> Your http_proxy? [webproxy.yourdomain.com:8080] <no_proxy> Your no_proxy? [] If your proxy is an authenticating proxy, you can store your username permanently. If you do not want that, just press RETURN. You will then be asked for your username in every future session. Your proxy user id? [] Please remember to call 'o conf commit' to make the config permanent! cpan[2]> o conf commit commit: wrote '/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Config.pm' Ref: ...