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Date:      Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:37:16 +1100
From:      Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com>
To:        Jill Rhoads <jrhoads@lector.kth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [jrhoads@lector.kth.se: Making ports passive]
Message-ID:  <19990205123715.B1772@corp.au.triax.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990205121957.39576@welearn.com.au>
References:  <19990205121957.39576@welearn.com.au>

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On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 at 12:19:58 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> Hi Jill, I'm forwarding this to the support mailing list which is
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. You should get some email replies
> from there, and the answers will become available at
> http://www.freebsd.org/search.html for others who have a similar
> question in the future.
> 
> -----Forwarded message from Jill Rhoads <jrhoads@lector.kth.se>-----
> 
> From: jrhoads@lector.kth.se (Jill Rhoads)
> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-newbies)
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:56:24 +0100
> Subject: Making ports passive
> 
> How do you make the ports collection passively ftp files?  Can you even
> do it?  Can you do it without having to change every Makefile that you
> intend to install? I'm sitting on an ISDN line that loves passive
> transfers.
> 

In your /etc/make.conf file uncomment the following line.. 

FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=	YES

and below it add..

FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=	-p

That oughta do it.

Hope this helps,

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