Mounting an FTP space ?

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 02/03/2007, at 6:54 PM, Chris Slothouber wrote:

> make config will load the variables stored in /var/db/ports/*

Oh. I'll look into that.

 From /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs/ I typed make config and it 
said that it wanted me to pass options to it.




>
> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>>>> What do I need to do to wipe the slate clean?
>> On 02/03/2007, at 11:53 AM, Chris Slothouber wrote:
>>> make config
>> Yes. I don't know what arguments to pass to it. Where are the current 
>> arguments being stored, surely I can edit that file?
>>>
>>> Never you mind wrote:
>>>> On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, John Nielsen wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote:
>>>>>> On my Mac from the Finder I can select "Connect to server", give 
>>>>>> it the
>>>>>> details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp
>>>>>> space as a drive on the desktop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and xfce
>>>>>> desktop manager?
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't used it, but the sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs should allow 
>>>>> you to mount
>>>>> an ftp location as a virtual filesystem. The desktop icon thing 
>>>>> you'll have
>>>>> to work out on your own, but it shouldn't be too difficult (a 
>>>>> shortcut to
>>>>> your chosen mountpoint should suffice).
>>>> I've just made an error during installation. At the dialog I 
>>>> selected BOTH c-ares and IPV6.
>>>> That caused an error:
>>>> curl-7.16.0_1  does not support both c-ares and IPv6 - disable one 
>>>> of them.
>>>> OK. I thought I'd simply run "make install clean" again and at the 
>>>> dialog I would make my selection. However, I do not get to the 
>>>> dialog. My choices have been saved somewhere and are being re-used. 
>>>> I need to clean up from my first effort. What do I need to do to 
>>>> wipe the slate clean?
>>>> malcolm
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