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Date:      Sun, 16 May 1999 07:03:51 +0200
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>
To:        mlb27@cornell.edu
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: passive fetch under make?
Message-ID:  <19990516070351.A23387@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.990515181153.9519B@travelers.mail.cornell.edu>; from mlb27@cornell.edu on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:17:25PM -0400
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.990515181153.9519B@travelers.mail.cornell.edu>

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On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:17:25PM -0400, mlb27@cornell.edu wrote:
> I'm trying to make some ports from a 3.1 box that's behind a firewall and
> it fails any kind of ftp fetch since it tries to use active mode.  I've
> tried aliasing fetch to fetch -p to get it to use passive mode, but this
> doesn't seem to have any effect when it's called from make.  Is there some
> other way to build ports in a situation where active ftp isn't available? 

I'm behind a firewall also, and I use the environment parameters:
FTP_PROXY=my.proxy and FTP_PASSWORD=me@my.address

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