.\" This manpage is copyright (C) 1998 Branden Robinson .\" and Manoj Srivastava . .\" .\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, .\" or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but .\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public .\" License along with APT; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA .\" 02111-1307 USA .TH ftp.conf 5 "16 June 1998" "Debian GNU/Linux" .SH NAME ftp.conf \- configuration file for APT FTP method .SH DESCRIPTION The ftp.conf file determines the behavior of the FTP method for the APT packaging tool. The syntax of the file is .IR variable = value . Quotes are not required around .IR value s. Comments start with a '#' and end at the next newline. Blank lines are ignored. The following .I variables are understood: .IP Firewall is the hostname of a machine which acts as an FTP firewall. This can be overridden by an environment variable .IR FTP_FIREWALL . If specified, and the given hostname cannot be directly contacted, a connection is made to the firewall machine and the string .B @hostname is appended to the login identifier. This type of setup is also known as an FTP proxy. .IP ProxyLogName is a parameter used by some firewall FTP proxies. It is used to authorize the user specified by .I ProxyLogName to send data beyond the .I Firewall machine. .IP ProxyPassword is the password used to authenticate .I ProxyLogName on the .I Firewall machine. .IP TimeOut sets a timeout value in seconds (the default is sixty seconds). .IP Passive is either .B true or .BR false . If true, then all data transfers will be done using passive mode. This is required for some dumb FTP servers and firewall configurations. It can also be overridden by the environment variable .IR FTP_PASSIVE . .IP Verbose is either .B true or .B false, and makes the FTP method output more data than it normally does. .IP Debug is either .B true or .B false, and makes the FTP method output debugging information. This variable is not currently implemented. .IP MaxReTry sets the number of times a connection is re-tried before giving up (the default is twice). .SH SEE ALSO .BR apt (8), .BR apt-get (8) .SH BUGS See . If you wish to report a bug in .BR apt-get , please see .I /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the .BR bug (1) command. .SH AUTHOR APT was written by the APT team .