Re: cvsup behind firewall with port 5999 blocked
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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: cvsup behind firewall with port 5999 blocked
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvsup behind firewall with port 5999 blocked
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. I've been googling for the last few days and haven't come up with solution yet! Options? Shawn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]