From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 19:57:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26226 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26221 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from nikki (slip129-37-208-80.oh.us.ibm.net [129.37.208.80]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA104114 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 02:57:04 GMT Message-Id: <199810180257.CAA104114@out1.ibm.net> From: "Michael G." To: "FBSDQ" Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:51:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Running thru Proxy Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick, OK..I'll go give this a try. I am able to get through to ftp.cdrom.com but when I get there I get the message that I can't cd to the 3.0-Release distribution on this server..but I fire up ftp on the proxy machine and verified it was there...appreciate the help! Michael G. On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:22:06 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: >I haven't tested this but... > >If you are setting up througth the automatic ftp thing just set your >username to username@ftp.mirror.org and it should give the proxy >enough info to connect. EX: patseal@ftp.freebsd.org would connect to >ftp.freebsd.org > >Patrick Seal >patseal@hyperhost.net > >> Subject: Re: Running thru Proxy >> >> >> This was a great question to come across....I'm trying to >> install 3.0 using a boot disk and ftp'ing through a windows >> proxy server...so I need to set the environment >> variable...any suggestions on what the fetch man page might >> say...since I can't read it yet ..thanks Doug! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message