From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 13:30:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8AE61500F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=mistress) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11RLgQ-0007fY-00; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:29:38 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:29:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: Brett Taylor 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 On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > 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 Thanks, it seems to work! I added both, as the FTP_PASSIVE line did not seem to be in my (current) /etc/make.conf. Marc marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message