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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
 

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