Also, try running 'fink configure'. When it gets to the question about using passive mode FTP, answer 'Y'. That seems to work for this problem fairly often.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Rich Grenyer wrote: > > > >curl -f -L -P - -O ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz > > >curl: (30) Server does not grok PORT, try without it! > > >### curl failed, exit code 30 > > >Downloading the file "bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz" failed. > > > > > > Am getting the sources elsewhere, so not actually a problem. But what > > does it mean? > > There could be a firewall in the way, on your end or on theirs. Or the FTP > server could just have this feature disabled, though to be honest I'm not > sure what it means (something about using a different tcp/ip port? > > % curl --help | grep PORT > -P/--ftpport <address> Use PORT with address instead of PASV when ftping (F) > > When using the default of curl for downloading packages, I got this error > a lot. Grabbing the same url with wget almost always got past this: > > % wget ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz > > On the other hand, wget gets snagged on other things, so it's not like > it's necessarily better. In the end, having both tools available helps. > > > -- > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
