seth vidal wrote: >>Well, I just tried ftp from my home machine which is behind an >>iptables-based nat-int firewall. I KNOW active FTP isn't going to >>work from there. From this I conclude that urllib2 uses passive ftp >>(as I suspected). It leaves me at a loss as to what the problem could >>be with yum/urlgrabber/urllib2. >> >>As I said, I'd be willing to pursue this if you think it's a problem >>on "our end". I recommend you start with these two things: >> >>1) use some other ftp client from that machine to grab the same file >> >>2) use urlgrabber directly to grab it, as in >> >> python2 urlgrabber.py ftp://server.com/path/to/file local_copy >> >>See what happens with those. >> > > > > I bet he's using 1.0 - which doesn't have urlgrabber, yet, and doesn't > have urllib2 at all :) > > -sv Doh ... I forgot to say that. Yes, this is a 1.0 yum. I've got to look, this might even be a 0.9x yum. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
