[snorkytheweasel]

When installing ubuntu 7.10 (server), I fat-fingered the address for the proxy server. Naturally, there was no "go back" option on the following screen. Now my new Linux box can't get out of my network and to the Internet.

How - using the command line - do I reset the address that tells my new server how to find the proxy server? The proxy server's IP is http://aa.bb.cc.dd : portnum

Note: I'm not talking about configuring squid. The squid server is in place on a remote computer, and it works fine. I need to tell my newly-installed local machine how to find the squid server.

I could do this easily with an ubuntu/kubuntu/xbuntu desktop, but I don't want to install a GUI on the server just to be able to set that one configuration item.

Another option is to just reinstall ubu, but that seems kind of dumb, when there must be a simple command.

THXIA

[lotuseclat79]

Hi snorkytheweasel,

The command ifconfig is for configuring network interfaces, and the command route is used for setting the routing table, and network-admin is the network administration tool. There are some examples in the route man page, but I'm guessing you may need to modify some of the the system files that boot up more so than a hosts file. Unfortunately, I'd need a tutorial on that myself, so I can't advise.

The solution may be as simple as specifying the proxy server in the routing table - or, maybe more complex - I do not know for sure.

Since you are using Ubuntu, I'd go to the ubuntuforums.org and post a query and explain what happened.

When you get your problem resolved, I'd sure like to know what you did, and would appreciate a reply back to let us know what action resolved the problem and how to do it.

Tia,

-- Tom

[snorkytheweasel]

Reinstall ubu wasn't such a bad idea, after all.

Before reinstalling I tried export http_proxy:http://aa.bb.cc.dd : portnum, but that didn't seem to help.

When I reinstalled I typed the proxy address very carefully.

After I reinstalled, I edited /etc/apt/sources.list. That was the key to the whole mess... the export command probably worked, but because of the missing package sources, I continued to get misleading errors.

My system & I are happy.