Re: Any trick to installing a module in Windows?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 01/13/2017 08:15 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:51 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: What ports are panda using other than git? This is not a fault in panda. I am confused.  Why in the world would panda be executing ftp code when it is compiling/installing a module?   Who told it the name of the FTP server?  Who told it the username and password? And, my firewall, which I wrote, logs EVERYTHING that gets rejected, both incoming and outgoing.  I used this logging to create a rule to allow "git" to establish outgoing connections. AND THE FIREWALL LOG IS DEAD QUIET when running           panda install Net::FTP Well, after installing the "git" rule and some turkey sending mangles packets to port 443. So I do not understand The Net::FTP module implements the FTP protocol, which runs on TCP ports 20 and 21 --- but in active mode it will attempt to connect back to your machine, and in passive mode it will make an outgoing connection to a port specified by the server on the command channel. FTP is not a good idea behind restrictive firewalls; you will not be able to get it to work without a smart firewall that tracks the FTP command channel to open a hole for the requested port. If you don't absolutely need this module, consider just not installing it; if you do need it for some specific purpose, you probably want to talk to the admin(s) of the site you are working with and try to get permission to use a more modern protocol like scp or the sftp module of ssh. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com                                  ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        http://sinenomine.net Hi Brandon and Friends, Net::FTP supports "passive mode". my $ftp = Net::FTP.new(:host<$FtpServer>, :user<$Username>, :pass<$Password>, :passive); Active mode is not an issue as the target FTP server is on a local network.  I plan on using passive mode anyway. Part of the confusion is that my systems are Linux based and I have wrote a really nasty firewall: all things are illegal unless stated otherwise, both incoming and outgoing. I model on my system and transfer to the customer's systems. The target system is a Windows client with an internal Linux FTP server on the network: vsftpd-3.0.3-3.fc25.x86_64 vsftp does support sftp and I really don't care what I use AS LONG AS IT WORKS.  This is an internal system. The purpose behind what I am doing is to create a backup archive rotator on an internal FTP server. The reason behind backing up Windows clients to a Linux FTP server is that ransomware can't get at the backups, as they do with anything with drive letters. The backup client is Cobian Backup.  It will write to an FTP server.  But, Cobian can not do house keeping properly on the FTP archive sets as it can not rotate archives when files in the archives have letters in their names that Windows Explorer (not IE) can not deal with, such as "+++" (for example, Firefox's "Storage" directory). Cobian can backup, but can not rotate (remove) old archives. So, I am rewriting a batch script I wrote to rotate Cobain backup files to local drives.  The Cobian database for rotating does not work very well and certainly falls apart with my hidden partitions backup scheme on local drives.  (I will go into that for anyone who is curious.) So I need Perl6 to let me do a directory listing on the FTP server, rename directories, and recursively delete directories. I can do this in Perl5, but I have had it with Perl5's stone age subroutines. Perl6 is pretty much useless without the modules, except writing "hello world!" <editorial comment>         AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! </editorial comment> Sorry for the frustration.  Thank you all for the help so far. -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~