Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:30:52 -0500 From: John.Shue@symmetron.com (John A. Shue) To: <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: fetch in passive mode fails (repost) Message-ID: <005201be3e8b$f99d3b80$02baefce@mail.symmetron.com> In-Reply-To: <19990112202141.JEYV678125.mta2-rme@wocker>
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Looks like I found the bug in fetch. It isn't checking the environment variable.
The following patch fixes the problem:
*** ftp.c.orig Tue Jan 12 17:50:41 1999
--- ftp.c Tue Jan 12 17:52:36 1999
***************
*** 366,371 ****
--- 366,373 ----
}
} else
ftpBinary(ftp);
+ if(getenv("FTP_PASSIVE_MODE"))
+ fs->fs_passive_mode=1;
ftpPassive(ftp, fs->fs_passive_mode);
for (i = 0, dp = ftps->ftp_remote_dirs; i < ftps->ftp_remote_ndirs; i++, dp++) {
if ((status = ftpChdir(ftp, *dp)) != 0) {
I also submitted a pr to get this fixed in the source tree.
-john
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan Langille
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 3:21 PM
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: fetch in passive mode fails (repost)
I cannot get make to do its fetches in passive mode. As a result, when
doing a make I get errors like this:
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//.
fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//donkey-0.5.tar.gz: FTP
error: fetch: Can't open data connection >> Couldn't fetch it - please try
to retrieve this >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try
again. *** Error code 1
OK. That tells me fetch is not using passive mode. Running a fetch with
"-p" succeeds. I could just drop the firewall rules and do it again, but
that's not good enough. A read of man fetch tells about an environment
variable: "FTP_PASSIVE_MODE forces the use of passive mode FTP". I
thought it was an environment variable, so I set that. No effect.
A response to my previous post suggested that I try FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
in /etc/make.conf. That seems to have nil effect.
Any suggestions on how to get make to force fetch to do ftp in passive
mode that I can get my stuff through the firewall?
thanks :)
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