Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:10:25 +0000 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> To: "Vladimir V. Egorin" <vladimir@math.uic.edu> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fetch problem Message-ID: <3A5243C1.4314EDCB@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> References: <20010102132905.A15311@math.uic.edu>
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"Vladimir V. Egorin" wrote: > > Dear -STABLE Users, > > I ran into some problems with the ports collection (the system is > 4.2-STABLE, built on Dec 21). My machine is sitting behind > a proxy server (proxying http/ftp requests). > > I've set > export FTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ > export HTTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ > I've also tried setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. > > Fetch fails with the messages: > > >> libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/. > fetch: libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz: Protocol error > > Does anyone know why this is happening? > Many thanks, > > -- > Vladimir Don't set FTP_PROXY. Set HTTP_PROXY something like this username:password@hostname.domain:port eg. setenv HTTP_PROXY proxy_address:1080 The prococol part of the URL is the problem I think. See man 3 fetch -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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