Re: cvsup behind firewall with port 5999 blocked

2004-03-25 Thread Matthew Seaman 
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:20:24PM -0600, Shawn Kennedy wrote:
 Help!
 
 My company has shut down the ports in and out 
 of the firewall dramatically!  No SOCKS support
 so I tried using ssh. According to the cvsup 
 documentation, you are to have a login on the CVS box
 you are trying to update from, but I don't (the 
 official mirrors). I don't even have a box I 
 can bounce off of in place of a login.

Ouch.  In the long term, complaining through your management channels
that the firewall changes are having a deleterious effect on your
ability to do your job, and basically costing the company money is the
most likely way to get a favourable resolution to this.

In the meantime you can receive updates via CTM -- essentially a
serise of patches to the system sources and so forth sent to you by
e-mail.  See:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html

Cheers,

Matthew

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RE: cvsup behind firewall with port 5999 blocked

2004-03-25 Thread Shawn Kennedy 
 From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:42 AM
 
 On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:20:24PM -0600, Shawn Kennedy wrote:
  Help!
  
  My company has shut down the ports in and out 
  of the firewall dramatically!  No SOCKS support
  so I tried using ssh. According to the cvsup 
  documentation, you are to have a login on the CVS box
  you are trying to update from, but I don't (the 
  official mirrors). I don't even have a box I 
  can bounce off of in place of a login.
 
 Ouch.  In the long term, complaining through your management channels
 that the firewall changes are having a deleterious effect on your
 ability to do your job, and basically costing the company money is the
 most likely way to get a favourable resolution to this.
 
 In the meantime you can receive updates via CTM -- essentially a
 series of patches to the system sources and so forth sent to you by
 e-mail.  See:
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html

Ouch is right - I'm working on a request to security as I actually use
some BSD tools in my work, but they have been very reluctant in the past.

Thanks for the pointer - will give it a shot!

Thanks!

Shawn
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