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You are logged onto a linux machine and need to download something from the internet when in the terminal, but you cannot because it is not using a proxy and your corporate network does not allow direct connections to the internet (A good thing). For instance using a program such a wget. To solve this type these commands at the terminal..

export http_proxy="http://192.168.1.1:8080"
export ftp_proxy="http://192.168.1.1:8080"

I mentioned in a previous article that you can use cron to update your macs at scheduled times. The drawback with this is that if the machine is not on at that time the task will not run. So as an alternative I noticed that in 10.4.x there is a script that runs daily. So instead you can add your softwareupdate command in this...

sudo pico /private/etc/daily

Scroll all the way down to the bottom and put this line in...

softwareupdate -i -a

CTRL+X to exit, say yes and overwrite the file

You can test this by running...