On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:01:42PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Is this possible? > > It would be really "cool"(tm) if I didn't have to reconfigure every > program on my laptop to use a different proxy server every time I plug > it into a different network. > The answer is close to you: $ apt-cache search laptop configure (manually removing useless entries) ifplugd - A configuration daemon for ethernet devices laptop-net - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet laptop-net-doc - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet - documentation laptop-netconf - network detection and configuration program for laptops whereami - Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system for a new location All of these, IIRC, provide means to run user-defined scripts for autoconfiguration. Setting up the proxy server might be just a manner of setting up the http_proxy environment variable depending on your location (although some browsers might not use it). Regards Javi
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