Re: OT: sometimes it's good to see the competition

[Elizabeth Barham <lizzy@soggytrousers.net>]

> And it was, but in the process they introduced a new "bug" into YOU,
> it uses wget to download stuff apparently, and they failed to
> configure wget to use passive ftp, so any attempts to download fail(if
> your behind some form of NAT). I didn't know at the time, so I configured
> SuSE to use a proxy using their YaST2 tool, but I guess that setting doesn't
> affect YOU since wget's config wasn't changed. Only later did I see on their
> support page that they forgot to turn on passive ftp. When running YOU
> it just spits back a generic message saying basically 'error, try another
> mirror'.

Perhaps renaming wget something, say "real-wget" and replacing "wget"
with a script will do the trick:

#/bin/sh
real-wget --passive-ftp $*

Thanks for the report on SuSE.

Elizabeth