From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 12:03:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A669516A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hoemail1.firewall.lucent.com (hoemail1.lucent.com [192.11.226.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBBE43D2D for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:03:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawnlkennedy@lucent.com) Received: from ihmail.ih.lucent.com (h135-1-218-70.lucent.com [135.1.218.70]) ESMTP id i2PK3M217447; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:03:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from il0015shawnlke2 (il0015shawnlke2.ih.lucent.com [135.185.54.213]) by ihmail.ih.lucent.com (8.11.7+Sun/EMS-1.5 sol2) id i2PK3KG01281; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:03:21 -0600 (CST) From: "Shawn Kennedy" To: "Matthew Seaman" Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:03:21 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20040325094158.GB61612@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cvsup behind firewall with port 5999 blocked X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: shawnlkennedy@lucent.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:03:35 -0000 > From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:42 AM > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:20:24PM -0600, Shawn Kennedy wrote: > > Help! > > > > My company has shut down the ports in and out > > of the firewall dramatically! No SOCKS support > > so I tried using ssh. According to the cvsup > > documentation, you are to have a login on the CVS box > > you are trying to update from, but I don't (the > > official mirrors). I don't even have a box I > > can bounce off of in place of a login. > > Ouch. In the long term, complaining through your management channels > that the firewall changes are having a deleterious effect on your > ability to do your job, and basically costing the company money is the > most likely way to get a favourable resolution to this. > > In the meantime you can receive updates via CTM -- essentially a > series of patches to the system sources and so forth sent to you by > e-mail. See: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html Ouch is right - I'm working on a request to security as I actually use some BSD tools in my work, but they have been very reluctant in the past. Thanks for the pointer - will give it a shot! Thanks! Shawn