BitDefender install script hangs on ftp call

When running the BitDefender install script, wget tries passive ftp and hangs. Here is a way to force wget to not use ftp passive.

When running the BitDefender download/install script (see http:/www.bitdefender.com),

# ls -l bitdefender-smb-installer
  -rw-r--r--   1 rod  users    84956 Nov  1 02:13 bitdefender-smb-installer
# bash ./bitdefender-smb-installer

on my system, after answering a bunch of questions the script goes to try and download what it needs...

Getting ftp://ftp.bitdefender.com/pub/linux/SmallBusiness/final/en/packages/latest_versions using wget
23:34:49  ftp://ftp.bitdefender.com/pub/linux/SmallBusiness/final/en/packages/latest_versions
           => `latest_versions'
Resolving ftp.bitdefender.com... 64.239.7.84
Connecting to ftp.bitdefender.com[64.239.7.84]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/linux/SmallBusiness/final/en/packages ... done.
==> PASV ...

and it just sits and hangs trying to do the passive ftp download.

Try

echo 'passive_ftp=off' >~/.wgetrc

to force passive ftp off. (No big wow, but I wasn't aware wget took a .wgetrc file AND I couldn't find a wget command line arg to disable passive ftp.)

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BitDefender install script hangs on ftp call

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