Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:39:51 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Norman Maurer <norman@apache.org> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: passive ftp transfer with pkg_add Message-ID: <479DA2E7.8070808@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1201502087.6923.2.camel@norman-laptop> References: <94136a2c0801272219ue080ef9o74f30862c4c5ef73@mail.gmail.com> <1201502087.6923.2.camel@norman-laptop>
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Norman Maurer wrote: > Am Montag, den 28.01.2008, 07:19 +0100 schrieb Zbigniew Szalbot: >> Hello, >> >> I have been trying to install KDE by using pkg_add -r kde but the >> download is always failing. Reading man pkg_add I see a reference to >> change the FTP mode to passive if the download constantly fails. >> However, man does not say which file should be edited to change it. I >> tried pkgtools.conf but I have not found anything about FTP transfer >> mode in there. >> >> Can you advise which file needs to be edited? >> >> Also: >> >> "Note: If you wish to use passive mode ftp in such transfers, set the >> variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE to some value in your environment." >> >> What value should be set for FTP_PASSIVE_MODE? Any value? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> Zbigniew Szalbot > > Yes just do something like that: > > # export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true Note that this is set automatically for the default login class (/etc/login.conf). If you are not seeing it then either that file is not up-to-date or your user account is not in the default login class (see passwd(5)). Kris
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