Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:20:58 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fetch in passive mode fails (repost) Message-ID: <19990112202141.JEYV678125.mta2-rme@wocker>
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I cannot get make to do its fetches in passive mode. As a result, when doing a make I get errors like this: >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//. fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//donkey-0.5.tar.gz: FTP error: fetch: Can't open data connection >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 OK. That tells me fetch is not using passive mode. Running a fetch with "-p" succeeds. I could just drop the firewall rules and do it again, but that's not good enough. A read of man fetch tells about an environment variable: "FTP_PASSIVE_MODE forces the use of passive mode FTP". I thought it was an environment variable, so I set that. No effect. A response to my previous post suggested that I try FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf. That seems to have nil effect. Any suggestions on how to get make to force fetch to do ftp in passive mode that I can get my stuff through the firewall? thanks :) -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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