From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 7:11:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5027837B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.aplusdata.com (64.83.13.117.dsl117-dhcp-orf.cavtel.net [64.83.13.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9013E43E3B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthonyabby@mail.aplusdata.com) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:10:39 -0400 Message-Id: <200208291010.AA14877010@mail.aplusdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Anthony Abby" Reply-To: To: , Subject: Re: Passive FTP not working on FreeBSD 4.6.2 (Ports) X-Mailer: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message