From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 21:46:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com [146.115.71.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106A814D19 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com) Received: from ENERGIZER (energizer.hamsterville.ultranet.com [146.115.71.106]) by poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (8.9.3/8.9.0/1.0-bcg) with SMTP id AAA02842; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:47:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00cf01bf146c$f904d450$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com> From: "Ben Goodwin" To: "Kent Ho" , References: <38018F0F.A9B116DF@outblaze.com> Subject: Re: I can't seems to compile mrtg using ports. Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:48:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks like you don't have write permission in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. You'll need to have read/write access to that directory and to the mrtg port directory itself ... You might as well just do it as root... -=| Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Ho" To: Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:17 AM Subject: I can't seems to compile mrtg using ports. > Hi all, > > I can't seems to compile mrtg using ports, I got this error message when > i do "make install". > > >> mrtg-2.7.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > >> Attempting to fetch from http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/pub/. > fetch: empty reply from ee-staff.ethz.ch > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/. > fetch: mrtg-2.7.2.tar.gz: Permission denied > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this > >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > *** Error code 1 > > Please check to see what is the problem. many thanks... > > -- > Kent Ho > Technical Staff > Outblaze Ltd. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message