From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 17:54:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7139D37B8FB for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA75020; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:54:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:54:28 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Harris Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup through http proxy? In-Reply-To: <20000620004837.36750.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Harris wrote: :I installed FreeBSD 4.0-release at work today. Unfortunately I am :behind a firewall & a proxy server that required a username/password. :I was able to get the ports collection working through the help of :"man fetch", and my new-found knowledge HTTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY_AUTH, :and FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. Now, I know how to tell cvsup to use passive :mode, but I need ot know if its possible(and if so, how) to use it :through a proxy that requires a username/password(I would like to :update to 4.0-stable and 'sup the ports). It's probably easier to use CTM, and ftp/ http fetch the deltas. There's a section in the handbook on it. Regards, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message