Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:51:30 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passive FTP not working on FreeBSD 4.6.2 (Ports) Message-ID: <20020829135130.GF17153@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <006201c24f5e$823a63a0$b50d030a@PATRICK> References: <200208290845.AA87425230@mail.aplusdata.com> <006201c24f5e$823a63a0$b50d030a@PATRICK>
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 03:18:01PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> From: "Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby@mail.aplusdata.com>
>
> > Okay, I have played with this over the past several days and I'm all
> played out. I can not determine why this is happening because I'm just
> too new to FreeBSD.
>
> Anthony, please set your MUA to wrap lines at about 76 chars...
>
> <snip>
> > So, can anyone explain to me why I do not have complete ftp
> functionallity on this system here at work? Any idea of where I might
> begin to even look to troubleshoot it?
>
> 2 thoughts occur to me:
> 1) Are you sure you are in PASSIVE mode? AFAIK, ftp defaults to ACTIVE,
> so you must specify PASSIVE.
You need to set ${FTP_PASSIVE_MODE} in your shell's environment. Set it
to anything other than "NO". You can either do this from your shell
dotfiles, or you can modify the setenv directive in /etc/login.conf, so
the change is available to all users who log in. Add this to the setenv
line:
,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
Make sure the line ends in :\ or it will break. (The "\" must be the
last character on the line). Save your changes, then do
# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
to rebuild the capabilities database. Now, each time any user logs in,
they should automatically have ${FTP_PASSIVE_MODE} defined, and passive
ftp will work. The ftp client program in the base system (the one used
by the ports system) looks for ${FTP_PASSIVE_MODE}, and will start up in
passive mode if the variable is set to anything but "NO". Ncftp uses a
different variable, and I believe uses passive connections by default.
> 2) Are you perhaps running IPFW or IPF on your FreeBSD box? Perhaps
> that is where the FTP is being blocked - on your FreeBSD box, not your
> company firewall.
HTH
Dan
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