Date: 12 Jan 2001 00:58:14 +0100 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com>, <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, steve@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there any reason for FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS? Message-ID: <ely9k5ex.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "08 Jan 2001 14:12:11 %2B0100" References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101051329260.51751-100000@juil.domain> <xzpitnqi3x0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes: > Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com> writes: > > Except one port news/dnews all others actually doesn't need > > FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS (according man page of fetch). And I'm not sure if it is > > needed even for news/dnews. > > news/dnews does not use fetch(1), it sets FETCH_CMD to ftp(1) because > the master site's ftpd (some kind of BSDish ftpd running on RedHat > Linux) insists on anonymous logins using "anonymous", and libfetch did you try FETCH_ENV+= FTP_LOGIN=anonymous ? this variable seems to not be documented somewhere! > uses "ftp" (I can't remember why... "anonymous" is the standard > according to RFC1635). Apparently, Steve decided that reporting bugs Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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