From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 20:28:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A46114A00 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA78339; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:28:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA52952; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:28:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA37756; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:28:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:28:08 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Brett Taylor Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FTP_PASSIVE_MODE - (was Re: Problem with Ports and Firewall) Message-ID: <20000117052807.A37728@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <20000116215656.B60295@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:42:00PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :) -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message