From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 29 13:57:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB54016A403 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: from mail.secureworks.net (mail.secureworks.net [65.114.32.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34EB843D45 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:57:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: (qmail 95733 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2006 13:57:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.14.135?) (63.239.86.253) by 0 with SMTP; 29 Jun 2006 13:57:08 -0000 Message-ID: <44A3DC34.1040906@jellydonut.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:57:08 -0400 From: Michael Proto User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060627) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20060629135334.179D5694060@athome.siloamsprings.com> In-Reply-To: <20060629135334.179D5694060@athome.siloamsprings.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: problems with fetch X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:57:09 -0000 Christopher Hobbs wrote: > I'm a first time poster, so forgive me if this is the wrong list or if I break > etiquette. > > Fetch frequently fails for me when installing ports via "pkg_add" or directly > from the ports tree. Regardless of the port I'm trying to add, it almost always > returns the following... > > Using 'pkg_add': > > --BEGIN SNIP-- > > root@SS002:~ 160:0# pkg_add -r xpdf > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/xpdf.tbz: > Syntax error in parameters or arguments > pkg_add: unable to fetch > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/xpdf.tbz' > by URL > > --END SNIP-- ... This is probably better-suited to the freebsd-questions@ list, but I'll take a quick stab at it. Could it be that you're behind a firewall or FTP proxy that doesn't support active FTP transfers? You mentioned you tried several of the knobs for fetch, but did you try the same fetch with the -p flag? fetch -p ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/xpdf.tbz -Proto