Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:52:18 +0100 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: passive ftp transfer with pkg_add Message-ID: <94136a2c0801280252r278df9c5y1d83f200111628ff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <479DA2E7.8070808@FreeBSD.org> References: <94136a2c0801272219ue080ef9o74f30862c4c5ef73@mail.gmail.com> <1201502087.6923.2.camel@norman-laptop> <479DA2E7.8070808@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi there, 2008/1/28, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>: > Norman Maurer wrote: > > Am Montag, den 28.01.2008, 07:19 +0100 schrieb Zbigniew Szalbot: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have been trying to install KDE by using pkg_add -r kde but the > >> download is always failing. Reading man pkg_add I see a reference to > >> change the FTP mode to passive if the download constantly fails. > >> However, man does not say which file should be edited to change it. I > >> tried pkgtools.conf but I have not found anything about FTP transfer > >> mode in there. > >> > >> Can you advise which file needs to be edited? > >> > >> Also: > >> > >> "Note: If you wish to use passive mode ftp in such transfers, set the > >> variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE to some value in your environment." > >> > >> What value should be set for FTP_PASSIVE_MODE? Any value? > >> > >> Many thanks! > >> > >> Zbigniew Szalbot > > > > Yes just do something like that: > > > > # export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true > > Note that this is set automatically for the default login class > (/etc/login.conf). If you are not seeing it then either that file is > not up-to-date or your user account is not in the default login class > (see passwd(5)). I do not have an access to this machine right now but I would think I should have the default login class. However, I ran pkg_add -rvK kde and I saw that while logging to the ftp server, the mode was set to Active because at some point I saw a message that I may want to set it to passive (I believe it was response from the FreeBSD FTP server). I'll check when I get home. Anyway, I could not complete the download of qt-3.3.38.tbz if I remember correctly (and I tried many times). Interestingly enough, when I typed wget LINK TO FILE, I downloaded it pretty fast. I then moved the file to /var/tmp but when I ran pkg_add -r kde, it did not seem to notice the file has been downloaded before and stopped again. I am going to try to install kde from an iso CD. Am I right in thinking that installing KDE via ports would take an awful lot of time on a humble PIII 866 512RAM machine? Thanks again! Zbigniew Szalbot
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