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Date:      08 May 2001 12:35:42 +0100
From:      Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
To:        "Nigel Taylor" <nigelt@iinet.net.au>
Cc:        Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: make install problems
Message-ID:  <m1n18okr8x.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <JMECIGLFIAOLMBPIAPJIOEABCAAA.nigelt@iinet.net.au>
References:  <JMECIGLFIAOLMBPIAPJIOEABCAAA.nigelt@iinet.net.au>

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"Nigel Taylor" <nigelt@iinet.net.au> writes:

> Dear all
> 
>  I was trying to install a number of ports in FreeBSD and got the follow
>  errors on every single on i tried, can anyone please help me
> 
>  Jiffy# make install
> 
>  >>navigator-v477-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist
>  in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>  >>Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.77/unix/supported/linux2.
>  2/navigator_standalone/.
>  fetch:navigator-v477-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz:Can't open data
>  connection
> 
>  I tried manually and i could get them, using passive ftp.

Try setting FTP_PASSIVE environment variable to 1. This should then
make fetch use passive. 

Also, could you get them using active FTP ?

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