From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 5 06:08:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21130 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 06:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.WorldMediaCo.com ([207.252.121.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21125 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 06:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from opsys@open-systems.net) Received: from freebsd.omaha.com ([207.252.122.220]) by mail1.WorldMediaCo.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-55573U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:01:45 -0600 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:08:06 +0000 (GMT) From: "Open Systems Inc." X-Sender: opsys@freebsd.omaha.com To: Jill Rhoads cc: freebsd-newbies Subject: Re: Making ports passive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, 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. It is rather simple. All you need to do is, assuming your using a csh of some kind including tcsh, "setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE" without the quotes from the command line. Or set that same command in your .cshrc or .tcshrc file. For further information on this "man fetch". I hope I explained that fairly well. If not let me know :-) Chris -- "Join Team-FreeBSD on cracking RC5-64! grab you client now and HELP OUT! http://www.distributed.net/cgi/select.cgi" ===================================| Open Systems FreeBSD Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.8 is available now! | Phone: 402-573-9124 -----------------------------------| 3335 N. 103 Plaza #14, Omaha, NE 68134 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting, Network Engineering, Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzPemUsAAAEH/06iF0BU8pMtdLJrxp/lLk3vg9QJCHajsd25gYtR8X1Px1Te gWU0C4EwMh4seDIgK9bzFmjjlZOEgS9zEgia28xDgeluQjuuMyUFJ58MzRlC2ONC foYIZsFyIqdjEOCBdfhH5bmgB5/+L5bjDK6lNdqD8OAhtC4Xnc1UxAKq3oUgVD/Z d5UJXU2xm+f08WwGZIUcbGcaonRC/6Z/5o8YpLVBpcFeLtKW5WwGhEMxl9WDZ3Kb NZH6bx15WiB2Q/gZQib3ZXhe1xEgRP+p6BnvF364I/To9kMduHpJKU97PH3dU7Mv CXk2NG3rtOgLTEwLyvtBPqLnbx35E0JnZc0k5YkABRO0JU9wZW4gU3lzdGVtcyA8 b3BzeXNAb3Blbi1zeXN0ZW1zLm5ldD4= =BBjp -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message