From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 15:24:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.mgfairfax.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2896A37B400 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:24:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([24.163.115.240]) by Mail6.mgfairfax.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:24:30 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ray Kohler To: "Anthony Galella" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup behind proxy server -options/alternatives? Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:24:27 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0fbe13024231c12FE6@Mail6.mgfairfax.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 28 January 2002 06:19 pm, Anthony Galella wrote: > I am running 4.4 release at work and need to update it with the > latest security patches (Using the 4_4 tag). My access to the > internet here is through a Squid proxy server allowing me only > things like http, ftp, realaudio, and a few other ports. They > will not open up the ports needed for me to use cvsup. > > Are there any options/alternatives for me via ftp? I would need > to ftp to my company's proxy server, then enter my destination > ftp address at the proxy login prompt, this would then connect me > to the destination ftp server. You could use CTM, possibly. This gives you basically patches through email. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html -- Ray Kohler Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message