wget ftp retr error SOLVED

From: A-B C. (atakeoutcanton_at_adams-blaketakeout.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:18:16 -0800

I'm posting this so that it will get into the Google archives. It took me all
day to track this down becasue it is 'burried' in Google.

All of a sudden a script with wget ftp running on a local machine to get a
file from a server stopped working with an 550 error "unable to connect" and
a "file not found."

It seems that a new firewall was installed on the local machine. This requires
the --passive-ftp parm be used on the wget.

And if you are doing plain old ftp, you need to use the -p option or use the
pftp command.

Al Canton
Adams-Blake Company, Inc.
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