Updating rkhunter when behind a proxy

[fishface]

Basic server install of CentOS 6.9.

I have rkhunter hunter on the above server which is behind a proxy, if I manually export the proxy and then run rkhunter --update, it works fine, but when run via the cron job it fails, I have tried adding the exported proxy settings to the cron job but it still fails, I also added this to .bashrc and called from the cron job and it failed.

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function setproxy() {
    export {http,https,ftp}_proxy='http://user:password@myproxy.local:80'
}

function unsetproxy() {
    unset {http,https,ftp}_proxy
}

I've tried the WEB_CMD within rkhunter.conf and couldn't get it to work, and after reading this I'm wondering how I'm going to get this work, any help appreciated.
https://sourceforge.net/p/rkhunter/mail ... /33692314/

[TrevorH]

What about setting

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http_proxy=your.proxy:port
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/rkhunter --update

or

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0 0 * * * http_proxy=your.proxy:port /usr/bin/rkhunter --update

[fishface]

I'm using the script that installed with rkhunter, which is in /etc/cron.daily ( called by cron.d/0daily ) so I thought I could tweak that little and get it working, I'll try your suggestion.