Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:41:58 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Shawn Kennedy <shawnlkennedy@lucent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup behind firewall with port 5999 blocked Message-ID: <20040325094158.GB61612@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLNBDCLDILGOPJLGIIENMDGAA.shawnlkennedy@lucent.com> References: <NEBBLNBDCLDILGOPJLGIIENMDGAA.shawnlkennedy@lucent.com>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:20:24PM -0600, Shawn Kennedy wrote:
> Help!
>=20
> My company has shut down the ports in and out=20
> of the firewall dramatically! No SOCKS support
> so I tried using ssh. According to the cvsup=20
> documentation, you are to have a login on the CVS box
> you are trying to update from, but I don't (the=20
> official mirrors). I don't even have a box I=20
> can bounce off of in place of a login.
Ouch. In the long term, complaining through your management channels
that the firewall changes are having a deleterious effect on your
ability to do your job, and basically costing the company money is the
most likely way to get a favourable resolution to this.
In the meantime you can receive updates via CTM -- essentially a
serise of patches to the system sources and so forth sent to you by
e-mail. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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