From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 27 6:33: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (mail1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3AA37B51F for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 06:33:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@rockatronic.com) Received: from rockatronic.com ([24.114.50.29]) by mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000527133301.RHFQ416.mail1.rdc3.on.home.com@rockatronic.com>; Sat, 27 May 2000 06:33:01 -0700 Message-ID: <392FCE92.3F7A809@rockatronic.com> Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:33:06 -0400 From: Mike X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark S. Reichman" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES ???? References: <392F2A57.4B2C52EA@twcny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey I know this one!. FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is a "all ot nothing" environment variable in that if it's there it's yes. In other words FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=foo is the same as FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES (or no). So remove it entirely if you don't want PASV mode. Mike "Mark S. Reichman" wrote: > > I just noticed while ftp'ing to various freebsd > sites that the ftp client starts up in passive mode. > I dont recall it doing this in the past. In fact, the first thing > one must now do is shut passive mode off when first > entering the ftp client. I changed the login.conf > file to FTP_MASSIVE_MODE=NO and did cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. > Should this be set to YES for some reason?? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message