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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:43:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        jrhoads@lector.kth.se (Jill Rhoads)
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Making ports passive
Message-ID:  <199902042243.RAA13013@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <msg1658.thr-72f24d.f45d4@lector.kth.se> from Jill Rhoads at "Feb 4, 99 08:56:24 pm"

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Jill Rhoads wrote,
> How do you make the ports collection passively ftp files?  Can you even
> do it?  Can you do it without having to change every Makefile that you
> intend to install? I'm sitting on an ISDN line that loves passive
> transfers.

Uncomment the following line from /etc/make.conf,

--- SNIP ---
# If you are running behind a firewall, uncomment the following to leave a
# hint for various make-spawned utilities that they should use passive FTP.
#
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=      YES
#
--- SNIP --

HTH.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com

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