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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: getting ports using fetch in passive?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906041340390.20188-100000@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906041421210.10112-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>

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Thanks for the tip Brett. It is now doing the thingy. ;^)

- Todd

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Brett Taylor wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> 
> > >From 'man fetch' it says to set the environmental variable...
> > 	FTP_PASSIVE_MODE	;force the use of passive mode FTP
> 
> This could work - it's easier however to fix /etc/make.conf.  Make the
> following changes in /etc/make.conf (scroll/search down to the
> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE line):
> 
> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=       YES
> FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=      -p
> 
> Make sure to uncomment the first line (it's commented out by default as I
> recall).
> 

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