looks like local user error are you sure the credentials your supplying are correct?
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:13 PM, RICHARD FERNANDEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to access a local CPAN mirror over FTP and am unable to > connect. > > cpan> reload index > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read /.cpan/Metadata > Database was generated on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:31:07 GMT > CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok > Fetching with LWP: > ftp://cpan.arrow.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > LWP failed with code[401] message[Login incorrect.] > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://cpan.arrow.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > Couldn't login on cpan.arrow.com at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm > line 2178. > Fetching with LWP: > http://cpan.arrow.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > ^CCaught SIGINT > > > The http call fails because we don't have port 80 open (I might be able > to fix that later), but ftp works fine from a command line. It looks to > me like it's trying to login as "anonymous" even though I have > configured "username" and "password" through the CPAN shell. > > Does anyone know if there's a way around this other than hacking CPAN.pm > which I wouldn't be crazy about doing? > TIA > > richf > -- Rodrick R. Brown http://www.rodrickbrown.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrickbrown -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
