Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:45:47 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Tim McCullagh <timbo@halenet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP Message-ID: <20010112004547.A1716@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <0c6501c07c52$a17f2240$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au>; from timbo@halenet.com.au on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:45:57PM %2B1000 References: <0c6501c07c52$a17f2240$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au>
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Are you running this as root? Assumably, your ports tree is not world-writeable, so you need to run cvsup as as user with enough priveledge to write to the dirs where your ports live... On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:45:57PM +1000, Tim McCullagh wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone explain what I may have done wrong here > > I am trying to cvsup the FreeBSD ports > > When i use the command > > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile I get the following error message > > mailsat# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile > Parsing supfile "ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org > Cannot connect to cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org: Permission denied > Will retry at 14:50:02 > ^C > > my ports-supfile includes > > *default host=cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=. > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line. > *default compress > > ports-base > ports-security > > Any Ideas? > > TIA > > Tim > > > > > 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
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