Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:28:08 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FTP_PASSIVE_MODE - (was Re: Problem with Ports and Firewall) Message-ID: <20000117052807.A37728@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001162232310.11241-100000@peloton.runet.edu>; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:42:00PM -0500 References: <20000116215656.B60295@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001162232310.11241-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:42:00PM -0500, Brett Taylor wrote:
> 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.
But it has worked without it a long time. I'm behind a firewall and I've
seen people refer (is it spelled like that?) to it, but never used it
for 2 years, since it works with only FTP_PROXY variable set :)
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regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_
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