[OPEN-ILS-DEV] PROBLEM DOWNLOADING PERL MODULES

[Jason Etheridge]

On 9/27/07, Noel Goodman <goldenchild_gt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What I'm getting at is that I don't know how to configure the system to make
> passive ftp connections with file servers.
> My OS is gentoo.  Does anyone know where I can make that setting so that the
> terminal knows that its a passive ftp connection it has to make?

Noel, try the commands:

export FTP_PASSIVE=1
export PASSIVE_FTP=1

and then do your cpan stuff in the same shell.  I think one of those
will do the trick.

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