Mounting an FTP space ?

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 03/03/2007, at 7:24 PM, Chris Slothouber wrote:

> ftp/curl is where you're having issues, right?
>
> do a make config there first.


Thanks Chris, that did the trick.

malcolm



>
> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>> On 02/03/2007, at 6:54 PM, Chris Slothouber wrote:
>>> make config will load the variables stored in /var/db/ports/*
>> Oh. I'll look into that.
>>  From /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs/ I typed make config and 
>> it said that it wanted me to pass options to it.
>>>
>>> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>>>>>> What do I need to do to wipe the slate clean?
>>>> On 02/03/2007, at 11:53 AM, Chris Slothouber wrote:
>>>>> make config
>>>> Yes. I don't know what arguments to pass to it. Where are the 
>>>> current arguments being stored, surely I can edit that file?
>>>>>
>>>>> Never you mind wrote:
>>>>>> On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, John Nielsen wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote:
>>>>>>>> On my Mac from the Finder I can select "Connect to server", 
>>>>>>>> give it the
>>>>>>>> details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the 
>>>>>>>> ftp
>>>>>>>> space as a drive on the desktop.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and 
>>>>>>>> xfce
>>>>>>>> desktop manager?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I haven't used it, but the sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs should 
>>>>>>> allow you to mount
>>>>>>> an ftp location as a virtual filesystem. The desktop icon thing 
>>>>>>> you'll have
>>>>>>> to work out on your own, but it shouldn't be too difficult (a 
>>>>>>> shortcut to
>>>>>>> your chosen mountpoint should suffice).
>>>>>> I've just made an error during installation. At the dialog I 
>>>>>> selected BOTH c-ares and IPV6.
>>>>>> That caused an error:
>>>>>> curl-7.16.0_1  does not support both c-ares and IPv6 - disable 
>>>>>> one of them.
>>>>>> OK. I thought I'd simply run "make install clean" again and at 
>>>>>> the dialog I would make my selection. However, I do not get to 
>>>>>> the dialog. My choices have been saved somewhere and are being 
>>>>>> re-used. I need to clean up from my first effort. What do I need 
>>>>>> to do to wipe the slate clean?
>>>>>> malcolm
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