From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 2 13:10:20 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 13:10:17 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BD237B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:10:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from modem-235.sulfur.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.15.235] helo=omega.my.domain) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 14DYhC-0004Ze-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:10:15 +0000 Received: from freeloader.freeserve.co.uk (alpha.my.domain [192.168.0.2]) by omega.my.domain (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f02LAP623853; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:10:31 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Sender: ianjhart@omega.my.domain Message-ID: <3A5243C1.4314EDCB@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:10:25 +0000 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir V. Egorin" Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: fetch problem References: <20010102132905.A15311@math.uic.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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