From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 12 1:59:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B265637BA70 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 01:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA84486; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:59:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: fetch(1) timeout From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Jul 2000 10:59:14 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org fetch(1) can hang for a very long time (if not forever) if the server stops responding but doesn't close the connection. I had that problem with ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp trying to fetch the w3m distfile; fetch hung for five or six minutes before I killed it. I therefore suggest that the default FETCH_CMD in bsd.port.mk be changed from 'fetch -A' to 'fetch -A -T60' or something. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message