Re: Packages installer doesn't work + other weirdiness
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Please provide the config.log up to that point. This will help us
see
if we need to make further tests (there was a different library cited
in earlier reports, if they are the same problem).
I send the logs to you in the privat mail.
Jani> The package autoinstaller won't work:
Jani> (1) (error/warning) Error in process filter: (ftp-error FTP
Jani> Error: DIR failed: 500 Illegal PORT command.)
Possibly you're using an FTP client (seems unlikely in Red Hat 6.2,
but you could check) that EFS doesn't know about or an ancient EFS.
If you're behind a firewall, configuring EFS to tell FTP to use
passive mode might help.
Ok, that helps but not without glue.
I can't customise efs (The info tells that there is customise group for
efs, but there isn't) or I can't find from help how to change efs to use
ftp-client in the passive mode. So I changed system's ftp binary to
shell-script which calls ftp with -p. That's help, and everything works
after that like charm.
But obviously that won't work if you haven't root account at hand.
But anyway, thanks very much for help!
BR, Jani
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Jani Averbach