in Ubuntu 13.04 I tried to insert
export socks_proxy=socks://address:port
into ~/.profile but this is not working.
PS: I need to set it only for a user so not in /etc/enviroment.
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Which client tool should use this env variable?– NodeAug 27, 2013 at 14:04
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A few points:
- Environment variables are case-sensitive. Environment variables like this tend to be uppercase.
If you're testing in bash, note the top of the
~/.profilefile:# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells. # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login # exists. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples. # the files are located in the bash-doc package.The help wiki recommends using
~/.pam_environmentinstead of other files for session environment variables.- Its syntax is different than what you're expecting. See: http://linux.die.net/man/5/pam_env.conf
So (assuming
~/.pam_environment) you're probably looking for:SOCKS_PROXY DEFAULT=socks://address:port
Otherwise this is probably just a case issue.
You mention that you're using a browser and in there may lie the actual issue. Firefox, ignores environment variables by default. There is a plugin that will look for environment variables though (it's quite old):
I'm not sure how other browsers handle these things but I wouldn't be surprised if they do also ignore them.
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Hello, thank you for the reply. Actually when you use the system settings to set the proxy globally it exports it lowercase in /etc/environement. That's why I used the lowercase version. By the way I tried ~/.pam-environment and it is correctly exporting the variable (I check using env), but still the browser in not connecting through the proxy. I tried both socks_proxy and SOCKS_PROXY.– glsorreAug 27, 2013 at 14:04
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@Gius1982 Fair enough on the formatting and name. I've added an edit about browsers not using environment variables.– Oli ♦Aug 27, 2013 at 14:25