portupgrade question

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Jun 8 02:35:20 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:35:12PM -0400, Michael S wrote:
> wget works like magic. I used the defaults. fetch I guess is the
> FreeBSD default for "fetching" files from the web. It was having
> problems fetching files from FTP sites.
> No idea what the problem is.

Try setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.  This is set in the default login class,
but perhaps you have modified it.

Kris

> 
> On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:38:36AM -0400, Michael S wrote:
> >> Good day everyone!
> >>
> >> I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch
> >> doesn't appear to cope with it very well.
> >
> >What did you try?  fetch works fine with proxies for the rest of us :)
> >
> >Kris
> >
> >
> >
> 
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