by nitro » Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:00:00
ive got a problem using yast and updateing my system via an ftp connection
to
ftp.suse.com ... due to our firewall i can only use active ftp, but when
accessing
ftp.suse.com to get the index of all packages, yast is switching to passive
ftp and
thats my problem...i cant use passive ftp ... does anybody know if it is
possible to
tell yast or my ftp-client to use active ftp?
thanx, matthias kuehn
by Michael Muelle » Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:00:00
1. Ask the SuSE installation support for help.
2. Ask your firewall adminstrator why there is this strange limit while
most clients are changing to Passive FTP to help out firewall
administrators.
3. Ask your administrator to install a FTP proxy converting the session.
4. Try to implement the active FTP connection yourself. The source of
YaST is available from the installation media. (./suse/zq1/yast.spm)
Malware
This may just be me (and I'll be happy, of sorts if it is, but after *trying*
to upgrade to 6.4 from the recent ftp distribution I have had severe problems.
The upgrade/install is fine until the xshared.rpm is reached. At which point
it complains about cpio: bad magic.
Installing from scratch doesn't solve this. This was from a wgeted mirror so
I tried direct from suse, same problem.
My computer is now stuck with a load of apps which can't run because they
*need* the libs in these packages which won't install.
I am *bloody* annoyed. This computer has been upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3 to
6.4CD and now, after all this I'm being screwed over.
SuSE took a month longer than projected to get this out and it's still
buggered!
Stop pissing about with S/390 and get your main distros to work! (And get
the PPC and Alpha ports out while you're at it; where are they?? You're not
winning friends by announcing (and that's all it is) ports to this that and
the other platform).
P(pissed)J(off)F (stuck with a semifunctional machine but I am *not*
downgrading to the 6.2 CD distro)
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