portupgrade question (solved)

Michael S msherman77 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 03:35:58 UTC 2006


I did define the to environment variables. For some reason, wget works
just fine on the same machine.

Thanks a lot.

On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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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