Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:04:30 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode fails (repost) Message-ID: <19990112210513.JOWK678125.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901121523280.9770-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> References: <19990112202141.JEYV678125.mta2-rme@wocker>
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Thank you Joe, this change, in combination with FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES solves the fetch problem. cheers! On 12 Jan 99, at 15:24, Joe \ wrote: > You also need to add another entry to your make.conf file in order to get > fetch to use passive transfers by default. Stick this line in > /etc/make.conf: > > FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -p > > Joe Clarke > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- 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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