> > FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no > apparent issues. > > I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp > installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum. >If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum will not use it as it cannot. Is this the case? I had assumed that the code underlying yum had its own stack for dealing with ftp://... urls. I will try this on a couple of machines. Thank you, Bob
On 10/19/2015 2:46 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:> If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum will not use it as it cannot. Is this the case? I had assumed that the code underlying yum had its own stack for dealing withftp://... urls.no, thats quite wrong. yum uses libcurl, which is the guts of the curl command, and curl accesses ftp:// url's without using the ftp command configure your external gateway firewall to REJECT (not DROP) any outbound ftp, and yum will quickly move onto other protocols. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 10/20/2015 01:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote:> configure your external gateway firewall to REJECT (not DROP) any > outbound ftp, and yum will quickly move onto other protocols.You should be able to accomplish the same thing by configuring your local firewall to REJECT the packets before the reach the company firewall and get dropped, that means configuring each box though so it may be easier to get your IT admin to make the change to the company firewall, or he may refuse in which case you're left with the local option at least. Peter