Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:56:48 +0400 From: "UkrBannerNet Agent" <savajob@mail.ru> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question. Message-ID: <E154T8C-0006aa-00@f3.mail.ru>
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Some days ago I installed FreeBSD 4.2 on my PC, but everytime I was trying to run one of utilites from /usr/ports/ the answer ":Permision denied" was given. I don't know how to solve this problem. I tried to change user to root, but the result was the same. One of my friends said me the following: The Deafalt ports mechanism searches for the tarball in the following folder :/usr/ports/distfiles, but you can't add anything there, for it is a link for your cd-rom(it is not allowed to write to cd-rom) that's why when you trying to launch any of ports you receive that kind of request. It is possible to change the tarball folder:DISTDIR=/where/you/put/it make install. That is what my friend said, but he doesn't know what to do if the port was already installed, but the proble still stays. As I am new to unix, I ask you to describe the solution. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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