On Behalf Of RW
I don't normally do this as Watson is usually less impressed when
Holmes reveals his working, but the clues were there. He wrote:
install software with ports (i.e, the
/usr/ports collection.)
and
FTP to grab source files from mirrors
If you combine that
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration. One
problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the /
usr/ports collection.) I have to disable PF to do so. Obviously not a
great solution.
Am
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration.
One problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e,
the / usr/ports
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:54:32PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration.
One problem: I can no longer
problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the /usr/ports
collection.) I have to disable PF to do so. Obviously not a great solution.
Am I correct in guessing that ports uses FTP to grab source files from
FTP or HTTP.
if you have http proxy like squid in your network do
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:41:40 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:54:32PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
passive ftp has been the default for long time, fetch is called
with the -p option.
sh/bash: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true
csh: setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE true
First off, this did solve the problem. Thank you, Jeremy.
Now, as to the why...
That's odd, because if you are running 7.x with a default settings,
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE should be irrelevant to fetching distfiles - even
