From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 15 0:40:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A3137B686 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C3E43EB2 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0F8eBNS090483 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0F8eBXf090482; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:40:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:40:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200301150840.h0F8eBXf090482@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/47093: FTP(1) man page correction Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/47093; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Erickson Subject: Re: docs/47093: FTP(1) man page correction Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:32:11 +0200 On 2003-01-14 19:09, mee@invert.com (Mike Erickson) wrote: > The man page for FTP says that it is not in passive mode by default. > This is incorrect. The client defaults to passive mode operation. This is partly correct. In /etc/login.conf FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is set to YES, but running ftp(1) without changes in the environment shows that: giorgos@gothmog[10:27]/home/giorgos$ ftp ftp> pass Passive mode: off; fallback to active mode: off. ftp> epsv4 EPSV/EPRT on IPv4 off. It seems off by default :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message