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Date:      Thu, 23 May 2002 22:51:13 -0400
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Nelis Lamprecht" <nelis@brabys.co.za>
Subject:   Re: fetch and passive ftp
Message-ID:  <20020524025632.9DA6E48449@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020522121506.013751c8@192.96.48.11>

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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

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