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Date:      Tue, 03 Feb 2004 03:23:32 +0800
From:      Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
To:        Anthony Discolo <avdiscolo@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftp/fetch/cvsup behind a firewall
Message-ID:  <1075749811.986.54.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my>
In-Reply-To: <SEA2-F32aWr9CV34sb40003ba5a@hotmail.com>
References:  <SEA2-F32aWr9CV34sb40003ba5a@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 11:12 -0800, Anthony Discolo wrote:
> I don't have a /usr/share/examples/etc/defaults/make.conf, but I have a=20
> /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf.  But it doesn't have a FETCH_ENV line =
in=20
> it.

# If you're behind a firewall and need FTP or HTTP proxy services for
# ports collection fetching to work, the following examples give the
# necessary syntax.  See the fetch(3) man page for details.
#
#FETCH_ENV=3D FTP_PROXY=3Dftp://10.0.0.1:21
#FETCH_ENV=3D HTTP_PROXY=3Dhttp://10.0.0.1:80

> I'm sure someone has been successful in running cvsup behind a firewall? =
=20
> After all, don't all these tools use ftp indrectly?

No they don't. :) cvs and cvsup, access a cvs server for latest updates
and other info, not an ftp server.

--=20
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
means."=20

FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386=20
3:15am up 1:56, 3 users, load averages: 2.15, 2.10, 1.91

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