On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Dino Vliet <dino_vl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi freebsd folks, > > I'm having troubles installing some ports because I'm behind a restrictive pf > firewall. I've heard that this could > be circumvented if I use a ftp_proxy. I have this debian server that can > access ftp sites and I installed vsftp on > that and checked I can get to that box with ftp. > > However, if I try this command from my freebsd box: > > fetch: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/screen-4.0.3.tar.gz > > I get: > > "Not logged in" > > My ftp proxy environment variable in .profile is: > > FTP_PROXY=ftp://ftp:f...@192.168.2.101:21 (also tried with only > ftp://192.168.2.101:21 but no luck) > export FTP_PROXY
I think you should set FTP_LOGIN and FTP_PASSWORD whith propper credential, or set them whithin the URL. See man(3) fetch. Regards Alberto Mijares _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
