Re: Newbie question about ports.

On Friday 24 June 2005 19:36, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Sam Ip wrote: > >I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > >there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > >through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is > >its ports collect

Re: Newbie question about ports.

On Friday 24 June 2005 01:01 pm, Sam Ip wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD > is its ports collection > > 1. Can

Re: Newbie question about ports.

Sam Ip wrote: I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http?

Newbie question about ports.

Hi, I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http? 2. Can you