Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:24:12 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Brandon Fosdick <brandon.h.fosdick@lmco.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp/fetch "command not understood" on stable and current Message-ID: <3F8F60DC.1090501@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <007e01c3945b$89401940$13fd2fd8@Admin02> References: <3F8EFE8C.6070604@lmco.com> <007e01c3945b$89401940$13fd2fd8@Admin02>
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Scot W. Hetzel wrote: >Your ftp client went into passive mode. The reason it went to passive mode >is because the /etc/login.conf file is setting an environment variable >((FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES) to turn on passive mode. To disable it, run ftp or >fetch under sh as follows: > >FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=NO ftp ... >FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=NO fetch ... > >or change FTP_PASSIVE_MODE to NO in the "default" section of >/etc/login.conf, and then use cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf to rebuild the >login.conf.db. > >Scot > > > Alternatively --- $ftp ftp>pasv passive mode off. ftp>open ftp.freebsd.org ....etc.....
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