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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.
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