From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 13:59:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20687 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nyc-ny66-25.ix.netcom.com (nyc-ny66-25.ix.netcom.com [209.109.225.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20672 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@nyc-ny66-25.ix.netcom.com) Received: from spork (helo=localhost) by nyc-ny66-25.ix.netcom.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zz6OD-0000DH-00; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:57:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:57:49 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Dan Langille cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode In-Reply-To: <19990109050717.KQXM682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > I was installing tcp_wrapper. So I did this: > > [root@ns:/usr/ports/security/donkey] # make > >> donkey-0.5.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > 0.5.tar.gz: FTP error: > fetch: Can't open data connection > OK. That tells me it's in passive mode. Now I could just drop the > firewall rules and do it again, but that's not good enough. A read of man > fetch tells about an environment variable: "FTP_PASSIVE_MODE force the > use of passive mode FTP". > So I did this: "set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=Y" and tried again. same errors. You should set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf. > > -- > Dan Langille > The FreeBSD Diary > http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message