Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 23:40:23 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Anthony Kim <anthony@enteract.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive FTP Message-ID: <19990128104117.WGEO678125.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <36B02878.F90BFB6F@enteract.com>
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On 28 Jan 99, at 3:06, Anthony Kim wrote: > I have a 2.2.8-STABLE box running IPFW & NATD. > > I have FTP_PASSIVE_MODE= YES in /etc/make.conf on my workstation > (4.0-CURRENT) and am successfully using passive mode ftp with ncftp and > cvsup. However, when I do a make install in /usr/ports/dir/port-name I do > not get a successful transfer and get a logged src TCP port 20 attempt in > syslog. > > I thought uncommenting the above in make.conf would do it but it has > not. Fetch has a -p option to use passive mode. How do I get the > convenient use of "make install && make clean" in ports to work through > ipfw without adding "allow tcp from any 20..."? Please save me from > downloading all the src by hand! If I recall correctly, you need to do more than just that. The following is taken from http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/make.htm. You need to do more than just the above. I believe a PR has been lodged for this issue. If you get the following message when you use fetch, then I suspect you are behind a firewall: 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 If you are encountering an error message which is similar to the above, then try this simple test: fetch -p <file> If this succeeds, then the following lines added to /etc/make.conf should solve the problem: FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-p -- 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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