Running Opensuse Under Proxy

If you are running Opensuse under proxy environment then every time if you are logged in means you need to manually Goto Yast2->Network Services->Proxy settings to configure your network. The following blog post describes how to set proxy in detail:

www.unixmen.com/how-to-enable-proxy-on-opensuse. 

In order to speed up the process, i had created a small script.

#!/bin/bash
echo "----------CONFIG PROXY--------------"
echo "1.set proxy"
echo "2.No proxy"
echo "Enter the choice : "
read choice
case $choice
 in
 1)
 echo "setting up Proxy"
 echo -e "
 PROXY_ENABLED=\"yes\" 
 GOPHER_PROXY=\"\" 
 NO_PROXY=\"localhost, 127.0.0.1\" 
 HTTP_PROXY=\"http://172.16.35.90:8080\" 
 HTTPS_PROXY=\"http://172.16.35.90:8080\" 
 FTP_PROXY=\"http://172.16.35.90:8080\"
 " > /etc/sysconfig/proxy
 echo "bye..."    
 ;;
2)
 echo "Unsetting the Proxy"
 echo -e "
 PROXY_ENABLED=\"no\" 
 GOPHER_PROXY=\"\"  
 NO_PROXY=\"localhost, 127.0.0.1\" 
 HTTP_PROXY=\"\" 
 HTTPS_PROXY=\"\" 
 FTP_PROXY=\"\" 
 " > /etc/sysconfig/proxy
 echo "bye..."         
 ;;
*)
 echo -e "Invalid Choice. Exiting  bye"
 ;;
esac

When Proxy variables are set/unset through the Script means, it gets updated  properly to /etc/sysconfig/proxy. Zypper,Install/Remove software and Firefox works fine by detecting the proxy settings. But the Problem is Google-Chrome, since Google Chrome uses System-proxy settings, the change in the environmental variables affects only after Logging off and re-Logging in. We can overcome this by using the  following command:

       google-chrome --proxy-server=http://172.16.35.90:8080

see man google-chrome for more info.