From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 7 19:38:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30F337B536 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: by super-g.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C6796B41F; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.com (Postfix) with SMTP id AE26AB41E; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:38:45 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: James Housley , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive mode for ftp In-Reply-To: <393ED17C.986FD990@math.missouri.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Two things: 1. If you pull the IPV6 stuff out of your kernel, ftp seems to work fine, I assume it must "ifdef" the problematic parts of the ftp program out. I have a number of machines running -stable and have no problems, but I also always comment out the v6 stuff. 2. cap_mkdb is to be run like so whenever you've changed login.conf: "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf". You will have to log out (all the way to the login prompt if you're at the console) and log back in for changes to take effect. A reboot should not be necessary. Charles (this may not make it to the list, netsol is doing naughty things with my domain) --- Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com --- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > James Housley wrote: > > > This is from /etc/login.conf: > > > > default:\ > > :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ > > :welcome=/etc/motd:\ > > :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=NO:\ > > > > I changed FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES to NO and all was right in the world. > > > > Don't forget cap_mkdb. > > Thanks, that did it. > > Forgive my ignorance, but what was the reference to cap_mkdb (I had > to reboot my machine to get it to work). > > -- > Stephen Montgomery-Smith > Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 > Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 > http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message