was blank, now Clam autoupdate, add f-prot

[Antony Stone]

On Sunday 31 August 2003 12:55 pm, Kevin Spicer wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 05:49, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
>
> > Is there possibly some difference between the way the other scripts are
> > calling for the file and the way wget does it? Something that might
> > suggest a problem with the firewall, perhaps? My script is this:
> >       wget http://www.f-prot.com/cgi-bin/get_randomly?fp-def
> >       /usr/bin/unzip -fo fp-def.zip
> >       rm -f fp-def.zip
>
> The only thing that jumps out is that the other scripts switch to
> passive mode, whereas wget doesn't seem to on its own (unless I'm not
> looking carefully enough).  On the face of it I wouldn't have thought
> that was a problem.  Maybe you should try connecting manually to the
> site with command line ftp and try getting the file both with and
> without passive mode on.

Or else try adding "--passive-ftp" to the wget command?

A firewall which can't support active ftp would certainly account for the 
sort of timeouts being reported.   This sounds like a reasonably likely cause 
to me.

Antony.

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