From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 18:39:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0058D14C0D for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=mistress) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11R42f-0005JX-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:39:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:39:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ports and passive ftp Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is perhaps a stupid question, but I have to ask it, as I cannot find the information myself. When I try to install ports, they very often fail on getting the distfiles, with errors like: fetch: Syntax error, command unrecognized or fetch: Can't open data connection I can, however, download the distfiles myself through ftp from the same sites, but often (not always!) have to set the mode to passive. Is there a way to tell the ports to do the same? TIA -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message