From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 19:52:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E010237B40A for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 19:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10114 invoked from network); 24 May 2002 02:52:07 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-133-100.nfas.greensburg-tnt-2.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.133.100) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 24 May 2002 02:52:07 -0000 Received: from MOTHER (dhcp-20.wg.local [192.168.1.20]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA6E48449; Thu, 23 May 2002 22:56:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "Nelis Lamprecht" Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:51:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2472) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020522121506.013751c8@192.96.48.11> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fetch and passive ftp Message-Id: <20020524025632.9DA6E48449@wastegate.net> 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, 22 May 2002 12:20:08 +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: >Hi All > >Does anyone know how I can set fetch to permanently use passive ftp for >transfers, like maybe setting an environment variable or something? My >firewall(ipfw) prevents me from installing from the ports collection unless >I can get fetch to use passive ftp. I know you can use fetch -p but that is >not a permanent solution. I'm using bash. you could add: alias fetch="fetch -p" in your .bash_login file --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 7FEC 10AA 056B F8DE AC1E 6965 FBBE 9601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message