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Re: Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (maybe)

From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist at holgerdanske dot com>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:23:53 -0700
Subject: Re: Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (maybe)
References: <382C684D2347FA4DADFC2D3EA70268F1010CF1ED@ausy1mx2.corp.emc.com>

cygwin@cygwin.com:

Wardman_Michael wrote:
> I used to be able to use CPAN (only a week or so ago) but now it seems
> to time out. I thought it might be a network / firewall type thing but
> I can use ncftp ok. See below ...

Does your environment have FTP_PASSIVE set?

    dpchrist@w2k30g:~$ cat .bash_profile | grep FTP
    export FTP_PASSIVE=1


HTH,

David


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