From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 00:12:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20922 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 00:12:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20917 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 00:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA24348; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:10:54 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808100710.TAA24348@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Greg Lehey Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:10:54 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980810161319.L11095@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808100610.SAA10671@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 06:10:59PM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Aug 98, at 16:13, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 18:10:59 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > I ftp'd to the ftp site. Did a get. Then a make install. > > That makes it a bug. Ports should automatically install dependent > ports if they're not already installed. OK. Would the errors have been logged anywhere, I'm sure they've log scrolled off. Otherwise, I'll do it again. What steps should I take to get my machine back to where it was before I tried this install? > > I just now checked the pkg directory. There's a man directory there > > with fetchmail docs in it. I've cp'd the files over to > > /usr/share/man/man1 and now have the manuals online. > > > > That said, I know where the manual is now. Thanks! :) > > How did you install the package? Looks like you didn't use pkg_add. You are correct! That's what I missed. But given the above problem with the port, I would like to pursue that issue first. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message