Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:17:03 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode Message-ID: <19990113221749.SMPM678125.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <199901131853.SAA00706@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:08:29 %2B1300." <19990109050717.KQXM682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
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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
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