From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 28 16:48:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25693 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 16:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25642 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 16:48:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12966; Thu, 28 May 1998 16:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199805282347.QAA12966@austin.polstra.com> To: eivind@yes.no Subject: Re: Getting source In-Reply-To: <19980527233707.28932@follo.net> References: <19980527213242.16768@sr.se> <19980527233707.28932@follo.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: flygt@sr.se, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 16:47:55 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19980527233707.28932@follo.net>, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 09:32:42PM +0200, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > My FreeBSD 2.2.6 is placed behind a fire wall, and when using ports I set the > > environment variables FTP_PROXY and FTP_PASSWORD. Will this work for cvsup > > also? > > No. If you're behind a pure proxy firewall (limited number of > services) you'll probably have to change to using CTM to get the > source. Or, if the firewall runs SOCKS then that should work for CVSup. There's a section in the cvsup man page about how to do it. > If you're just behind a filter, you can do by using the > passive mode for cvsup - see the man page for details. Yes, that almost always works through a filter. But the most sure-fire mode is "multiplexed" mode, which is enabled by "-P m" on the command line. While I'm here, let me just put in a plug for the new CVSup FAQ at: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html Suggestions, corrections, and additional questions for the FAQ are always welcomed. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message