From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 19:42:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAB614BC5 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA11271; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:42:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:42:00 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FTP_PASSIVE_MODE - (was Re: Problem with Ports and Firewall) In-Reply-To: <20000116215656.B60295@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:36:24PM -0500, Brett Taylor wrote: > > While the other replies will work, they are a lot of work unless you set > > these environmental variables in your .cshrc or .bashrc. It's easier I > > think to do the following by editing /etc/make.conf > > > > - uncomment FTP_PASSIVE_MODE= YES > I was going to suggest this too until I realized that this was no > longer in the distributed make.conf. That made me suspicious so I did, > % grep PASSIVE /usr/ports/Mk/* > % grep PASSIVE /usr/share/mk/* > Which showed no such variable is used in the mk-files. Is it just you > and I or was there once such a beast? Or is there still one and I just > have not found it? Hmmm... there WAS one - and it worked (or at least used to). Digging through the cvsweb I found the following: ----------------------------------------- 1.74 Wed Feb 3 22:25:41 1999 UTC by asami Diffs to 1.73 Remove commented out definition of FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, it is (and has always been) an environment variable and doesn't belong here. Pointed out by: cnh@ems.mindspring.net, sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp ----------------------------------------- So it's gone. I don't think it hurts to do things this way however. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message