From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 14:18:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11461 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:18:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (203-96-92-3.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11446 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:18:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990113221749.SMPM678125.mta2-rme@wocker>; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:17:49 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Brian Somers Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:17:03 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199901131853.SAA00706@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:08:29 +1300." <19990109050717.KQXM682101.mta1-rme@wocker> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990113221749.SMPM678125.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Jan 99, at 18:53, Brian Somers wrote: > [.....] > > 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. That works! But I'd prefer to see that PR incorporated. In the meantime, I've added this to /etc/make.conf: FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-p Mostly because it involves less typing when it comes to a make. Thanks! -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message