passive ftp transfer with pkg_add

[Kris Kennaway]

Norman Maurer wrote:
> Am Montag, den 28.01.2008, 07:19 +0100 schrieb Zbigniew Szalbot:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been trying to install KDE by using pkg_add -r kde but the
>> download is always failing. Reading man pkg_add I see a reference to
>> change the FTP mode to passive if the download constantly fails.
>> However, man does not say which file should be edited to change it. I
>> tried pkgtools.conf but I have not found anything about FTP transfer
>> mode in there.
>>
>> Can you advise which file needs to be edited?
>>
>> Also:
>>
>> "Note: If you wish to use passive mode ftp in such transfers, set the
>>      variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE to some value in your environment."
>>
>> What value should be set for FTP_PASSIVE_MODE? Any value?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>> Zbigniew Szalbot
> 
> Yes just do something like that:
> 
> # export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true

Note that this is set automatically for the default login class 
(/etc/login.conf).  If you are not seeing it then either that file is 
not up-to-date or your user account is not in the default login class 
(see passwd(5)).

Kris