Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:40:13 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Erickson <mee@quidquam.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/47093: FTP(1) man page correction Message-ID: <200301150840.h0F8eDT4090491@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/47093; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Erickson <mee@quidquam.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, Mike Erickson <mee@invert.com> Subject: Re: docs/47093: FTP(1) man page correction Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:36:24 -0800 * Giorgos Keramidas (keramida@freebsd.org) wrote: > 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 :-( Ah, That explains the behavior. I forgot to check my environment first. Sorry about that. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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