I'm sorry ... I should have been more specific. MandrakeUpdate
doesn't work behind my companies ftp firewall and I think the
problem is that MandrakeUpdate uses passive mode ftp transfers
which are not supported by the firewall. I can't see any
selection for turning off ftp passive mode in MandrakeUpdate.
Also, I have seen other firewalls that need some sort of user
account and password string to gain access through the ftp
firewall. Although I don't need this myself I have seen other
ftp clients that support this type authentication.
Presently I work around the problem by mirroring to a local
directory using wget's ftp transfer because it supports
non-passive mode ftp transfer. I then use a short script to
prune the old packages out of the mirror. I can't use rsync
--delete because the needed port is not open though the
firewall.
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: David Relson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Adamson, Keith
Subject: RE: [Cooker] About the text-based version of MandrakeUpdate
At 11:14 AM 1/24/01, you wrote:
>Could you make both MandrakeUpdate and the new text tool work from
>behind a firewall?
Keith,
They do. Yesterday I used MandrakeUpdate and today I'm running
mdk-update.pl (as I write this). Both work fine from my Mandrake 7.2 +
updates + (bits of) cooker machine on my 192.168.1.x LAN connected thru my
firewall machine via dial-up.
By the way, I use a cool little tool called netmasq for setting my firewall
rules. It's a shell script with simple, easy to use config
files. Available from http://pulse.cantonpl.org/carl/netmasq.html, if
you're interested.
David
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