From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 22 14: 5:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7FF37B412 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f7ML5bl65240; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:05:37 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:05:37 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Frank Sonnemans Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetching ports from behind a firewall Message-ID: <20010823090537.B64122@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010822132032.5133E49AC8@zoe.sbs-online.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010822132032.5133E49AC8@zoe.sbs-online.com>; from fs.mail@wanadoo.be on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:24:39PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:24:39PM +0200, Frank Sonnemans wrote: > > I enabled ipfw on my machine and am no longer able to compile ports without > disabling the firewall. My firewall allows outgoing ftp connections (keep > state) which should make passive ftp connections possible. > > Fetching the source code still fails, even though the appropriate environment > variable to use passive ftp has been set (from man 3 fetch). > > What am I missing? An: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES (for sh) setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE YES (for csh) and that should fix your problem. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message