>Those who still want active FTP (what on earth for?)
I have encountered hosting companies in the past that only have inbound port
21 access for security reasons. I think this a bit odd but it is was it is.
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On 2011-Sep-27 21:53:43 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> I have therefore flipped the switch and made
>passive FTP the default. Those who still want active FTP (what on earth
>for?) can set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=NO in their environment.
I thought I needed it for the $work firewall but
Peter Jeremy writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
> > This overrides both the default setting and fetch(1)'s -p
> > command-line option.
> I'm less happy with this - my gut feeling in that command-line options
> should override evnironment variables.
This was already the case, just in the other
I keep forgetting that fetch(1) defaults to active FTP, because
login.conf(5) sets the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable, but every
once in a while I try to "pkg_add -r" in single-user mode or using
sudo(1) and it breaks. I have therefore flipped the switch and made
passive FTP t
