From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 15: 7:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816EF37BC0C for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (tntwc01-3-244.idx.com.au [203.166.3.244]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA17473; Fri, 12 May 2000 08:06:25 +1000 From: Danny To: Jim , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports: make thru firewall Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 08:11:07 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00051308130403.00342@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The best way to do that is to modify your /root/.login file like so # Bypassing the proxy setenv FTP_PROXY NOw you shouldn't have any problems with ports and firewall. On Thu, 11 May 2000, Jim wrote: > Hi all: > > Is there a way to get ports to retrieve files when you are behind a > firewall/proxy. > > I have asked this before, but the best I got was a reference to passive > mode in ftp. > > I could never figure this out. Am I supposed to edit every make file to > use the -p for pftp command? Is there a control file that will do this? > > Is there another way to get this to work? > > An example would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks > Jim > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message