On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:40:59AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > I'd like to upgrade using the ftp access method of dpkg/apt, etc. I am > on the other side of a firewall but there is a socks proxy to get > through it.
'man apt.conf' and search for 'ftp'. There are various references there to proxies, passive mode, and so on. > On other systems on this side of the firewall, I can use the r > commands, rcp, rftp, rsh etc. but I haven't seen them for Linux. They're in the rsh-client package, although ssh is preferred. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
