Mounting an FTP space ?

Chris Slothouber chris at hier7.com
Sat Mar 3 08:24:28 UTC 2007


ftp/curl is where you're having issues, right?

do a make config there first.

Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
> 
> 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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> Malcolm Fitzgerald
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