On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to introduce FreeBSD into my office and it's been looked > at with quite a bit of enthusiasm however, what makes it look bad is > our companies 'security' policy to block FTP. > > At present they are running a whole bunch of CentOS based boxes and > VM's which of course can be run through port 80 when using YUM. > > > How does one get round this issue as my superiors are telling me that > opening up FTP is a security risk and therefor don't want to proceed? > > > I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get > software. > > > Can anyone sugget anything? >
env ftp_proxy=host:port <command> where <command> is your normal command, such as "fetch". For a full list of environment variables you can use,… $ ldd -f '%p\n' `which fetch` | xargs grep -alr ftp_proxy | xargs strings -n 7 | grep _proxy fetch_no_proxy_match fetch_default_proxy_port http_proxy ftp_proxy no_proxy -- Devin _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"