From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 7:33:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C99937B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:33:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 842C53A3; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:33:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:33:03 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: john253@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anonymous fetch? Message-ID: <20010110163303.E94930@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , john253@crosswinds.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44snmrmp7o.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <44snmrmp7o.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>; from lowell@world.std.com on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:55:23AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:55:23AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > john253@crosswinds.net (John Murphy) writes: > > > I'm having trouble getting the ports system to work and I think the > > problem is with the password which fetch uses when called by 'make > > install'. > > > > I've just found that I can make install lynx, but it's the only one > > so far; the difference is that lynx fetches using a HTTP URL. Any > > which use a FTP URL seem to just time out eventually. Unset the FTP_PASSIVE variable and you'll be fine. Don't know who invented it but it took me some time also before it was solved. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message