Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:29:48 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: mick3@ibm.net (John Michelini) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command line question Message-ID: <3968e065.632839855@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <SEN.963013942.894122153@news.sentex.net> References: <SEN.963013942.894122153@news.sentex.net>
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On 7 Jul 2000 19:52:22 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >When I type cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep <ENTER> and then make I >get: host name lookup failure couldn't fetch it retrieve this port >manually into /usr/ports/distfiles. Why would I get this message and >how would one manually retrieve the port into another directory? The Make file is trying to ftp to a host to get the file. You get that error when your computer cannot find the IP address of the host where the source code resides. Is your computer connected to the net at the time and do you have a valid nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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