From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 13:36:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com [24.5.122.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E8314FA3 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Received: from localhost (tbackman@localhost) by c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA20704; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman To: Brett Taylor Cc: Christopher Michaels , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: getting ports using fetch in passive? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). > ========================================================================= Todd Backman "there are two major products that came out of berkley: Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be "Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message