From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 4 14:42:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04706 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04697 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:42:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13013; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:43:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902042243.RAA13013@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Making ports passive In-Reply-To: from Jill Rhoads at "Feb 4, 99 08:56:24 pm" To: jrhoads@lector.kth.se (Jill Rhoads) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:43:46 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message