From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 11:23:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07434 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:23:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07231 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09705; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:21:28 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA00706; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:53:19 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199901131853.SAA00706@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:08:29 +1300." <19990109050717.KQXM682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:53:19 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > OK. That tells me it's in passive mode. Now I could just drop the > firewall rules and do it again, but that's not good enough. A read of man > fetch tells about an environment variable: "FTP_PASSIVE_MODE force the > use of passive mode FTP". > > So I did this: "set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=Y" and tried again. same errors. [.....] How about ``make FETCH_CMD="ftp -p"'' ? ftp -p works ok in -current for http urls too. > -- > Dan Langille > The FreeBSD Diary > http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message