From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 14:26:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981E714A09 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA01941; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:23:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:23:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: "Wyatt, Anthony" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Passive FTP for ports!?!? In-Reply-To: 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 Hi, > I know I read somewhere just a couple of days ago the environment > variable to set to allow FTP passive connections when building code in > ports, but I can't find any reference to it anywhere today! A quick search at www.freebsd.org would have found this; anyway the short answer is: Make the following changes in /etc/make.conf (scroll/search down to the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE line): FTP_PASSIVE_MODE= YES FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -p Make sure to uncomment the first line (it's commented out by default as I recall). Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message