How to best handle three offices with three different sets of repositories and different proxies?

[Rainer M Krug]

Thanks a million - that looks much easier then I thought. I will 
definitely look into that

Rainer

Grant McWilliams wrote:
> 
>      >
>      > *The shell script*
>      >
>      >     #!/bin/bash
>      >
>      >     smart config --set http-proxy=
>      >     http://username:password@proxy-ip:port
>      >     < http://username:password@proxy-ip/>
>      >     smart config --set
>     ftp-proxy=http://username:password@proxy-ip:port
>      >     <http://username:password@proxy-ip/>
>      >
>      >     smart channel --add channels.txt
>      >
>      >     smart mirror --add mirrors.txt
> 
>     this solution sounds easy enough - but if I switch to the other site,
>     don't I have to remove the channels and mirrors from the previos one to
>     only have one set?
> 
> 
> I guess you could disable the channels but it would seem like the logic 
> would be more complex then just having seperate channel files.
> 
> smart channel --remove-all
> smart mirror --show | grep '^h' | xargs smart mirror --remove-all
>  
> These lines will remove all channels and mirrors. You could add just a 
> bit to the script so it was something like this.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> if [ -n $1 ]
> then
> echo "You need to specify a site argument"
> exit 192
> else
> SITE=$1
> fi
> 
> 
> case "$SITE" in
>     site1)
> smart config --set http-proxy=http://username:password@proxy-ip:port 
> <http://username:password@proxy-ip/>
> smart config --set ftp-proxy= http://username:password@proxy-ip:port
> smart channel --add site1-channels.txt
> smart mirror --add site1-mirrors.txt
> echo "Smartpm configured for site1"
>          ;;
>     site2)
> smart config --set http-proxy=http://username:password@proxy-ip:port 
> <http://username:password@proxy-ip/>
> smart config --set ftp-proxy=http://username:password@proxy-ip:port
> smart channel --add site2-channels.txt
> smart mirror --add site2-mirrors.txthttp://mapper.tat.fws.gov/ogcwms/WmsServlet?service=wms&servicename=crithab&VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=getcapabilities
> echo "Smartpm configured for site1"
>          ;;
>     *)
>          commands;
>          ;;
> esac
> 
> exit 0
> 
> 
> The automatic proxy code looks something like this
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> PROXYSERVER="proxy.domain.com <http://proxy.domain.com>"
> PROXYPORT="8080"
> 
> if ping -c2 $PROXYSERVER &> /dev/null
> then
> smart config --set 
> http-proxy=http://username:password@PROXYSERVER:PROXYPORT 
> <http://username:password@proxy-ip/>
> smart config --set ftp-proxy=http://username:password@PROXYSERVER:PROXYPORT
> else
> smart config --remove http-proxy
> smart config --remove ftp-proxy
> fi
> 
> You could expand this to check for more than one proxy server and 
> depending on which one it found it would set the proxy settings.
> 
> Grant
> 
> -- 
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use 
> Windows."
> Now they have two problems.