CVSup through user:host ftp gateway.

[Brian Somers]

What exactly are you trying to do ?

I *guess* you're trying to cvsup through an ftp proxy.  Is this 
supposed to be possible ?

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head round this.  I can ftp out of my
> domain by using user:host i.e. (I type the bits betweeen *'s)
> 
> % ftp *<internal.ftp.server>*
> connected to <internal.ftp.server>
> name: *anonymous at ftp.uk.freebsd.org*
> 331 GATEWAY CONNECTED TO ftp.uk.freebsd.org
> 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. *at which
> point I press <enter> *
> 
> The problem is that I don't know how to get cvsup to work with this config.
>  
> Basically I ftp to my gateway ftp server, which then prompts me for a user name
> - for this I enter the username and address of the remote internet host in the
> format anonymous at ftp.uk.freebsd.org
> The gate way then connects to the remote hosts and uses the user name supplied
> before the @
> The remote host then requires a password (which I just press enter on anonymous).
> 
> 
> Any suggestions or pointers to relevent docs would be great.
> 
> Matt

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