Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:10:39 -0400 From: "Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby@mail.aplusdata.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <dan@slightlystrange.org> Subject: Re: Passive FTP not working on FreeBSD 4.6.2 (Ports) Message-ID: <200208291010.AA14877010@mail.aplusdata.com>
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>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
>
I just checked and it's already set to YES, and the line ends in ":\" too. I am not running ipfw, so this is getting more bewildering as I go along. I instaleld BSD at home exactly how I installed it here at work. Ports (and ftp) works from home, but does not here at work!!
Anthony
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