Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 05:45:47 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: mika ruohotie <bsdcvs@shadows.aeon.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <7705.876401147@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 14:49:05 %2B0200." <199710091249.OAA11268@shadows.aeon.net>
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> the make.conf 'FTP_PASSIVE_MODE= YES' means that behind a firewall > it's something to be used so that ftp makes passive requests and > thus "works", right? Right. It's used by the standard FTP: root@time-> cd /usr/src/usr.bin/ftp root@time-> grep FTP_PASSIVE_MODE * main.c: if (getenv("FTP_PASSIVE_MODE") || strcmp(cp, "pftp") == 0) Is documented by fetch: root@time-> cd /usr/src/usr.bin/fetch root@time-> grep FTP_PASSIVE_MODE * fetch.1:.Bl -tag -width FTP_PASSIVE_MODE -offset indent fetch.1:.It Ev FTP_PASSIVE_MODE And is implemented for fetch and other utilities in libftpio: root@time-> cd /usr/src/lib/libftpio root@time-> grep FTP_PASSIVE_MODE * ftpio.c: if (getenv("FTP_PASSIVE_MODE")) > as far as i can see, this is far better way to do it than > bloating the fetch to actually agree with FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. Fetch is already, through libftpio, supposed to agree with it. Unfortunately, I don't have a firewall'd machined handy to test at the moment but it's certainly worked in the past when I did. Jordan
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