> And it was, but in the process they introduced a new "bug" into YOU, > it uses wget to download stuff apparently, and they failed to > configure wget to use passive ftp, so any attempts to download fail(if > your behind some form of NAT). I didn't know at the time, so I configured > SuSE to use a proxy using their YaST2 tool, but I guess that setting doesn't > affect YOU since wget's config wasn't changed. Only later did I see on their > support page that they forgot to turn on passive ftp. When running YOU > it just spits back a generic message saying basically 'error, try another > mirror'.
Perhaps renaming wget something, say "real-wget" and replacing "wget" with a script will do the trick: #/bin/sh real-wget --passive-ftp $* Thanks for the report on SuSE. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
