still probs with the FTP :-(

["oliver.haeuser" <oliver.haeuser@donner-nagel.de>]

Hi there,


thanks for all who helped me with the FTP. It looks like that for some
reason our firewall does not like
the ftp running in passive mode. If I turn the passive mode off (by
typing in passive in ftp or starting ftp with -A) everything works.

Russel and Martin helped me quite a bit to figure this one out.

Now I am trying to set up my machine that the ftp always starts in
active mode,
Pssive mode off when you type in status while in ftp.

The MAN mentioned an evironmental Variabel, FTPMODE to control the ftp
behaviour but either I am doing something wrong
or there is another way in doing this.

So far I tried to do this:

1)

FTP_PASSIVE_MODE="NO"
export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE

2)

set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE="No"

3)

FTPMODE="active"
export FTPMODE

4)

set FTPMODE="active"


but none of this works ... grrrr.

thanks a lot for your help.


Oliver Haeuser