Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:57:49 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim <spork@ix.netcom.com> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901091656001.346-100000@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19990109050717.KQXM682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
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On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > I was installing tcp_wrapper. So I did this: > > [root@ns:/usr/ports/security/donkey] # make > >> donkey-0.5.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > 0.5.tar.gz: FTP error: > fetch: Can't open data connection > OK. That tells me it's in passive mode. Now 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 force the > use of passive mode FTP". > So I did this: "set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=Y" and tried again. same errors. You should set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf. > > -- > 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 > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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