From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 12:37:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7D115378 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26829; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:35:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:35:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Marc Schneiders Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports and passive ftp 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 Hi, On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > This is perhaps a stupid question, but I have to ask it, as I cannot > find the information myself. When I try to install ports, they very > often fail on getting the distfiles, with errors like: I know this has been answered and I thought it was in the FAQ, but I guess not. > Is there a way to tell the ports to do the same? Edit /etc/make.conf and uncomment the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES line, then add: FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-p and you'll be fetching in passive mode automagically. Brett ***************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message