Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 19:13:18 -0500 (EST) From: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.w8hd.org> To: Paul Evans <technos@wariat.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports dir question Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950303180658.197B-100000@w8hd.w8hd.org> In-Reply-To: <199503031738.MAA05887@junior.wariat.org>
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On Fri, 3 Mar 1995, Paul Evans wrote: > Could someone please point me toward some info on how to use the 'ports' > directory. Specificly <sp> I need to get either Cnews or INN running. The method I used is as follows, hope this is the Right Thing: Make a directory where you want to build the port, like /usr/local/inn Copy the directory tree from the top level of port; on the FreeBSD 2.0R cdrom say: cp -R your_cd_mount_point/ports/news/inn /usr/local/inn Go to /usr/local/inn and type make. It'll try to ftp the inn1.4sec source from an ftp site so you'll want to be connected at this time. When the transfer is done it then uncompresses and un-tars the transferred file and then builds inn on your machine -slick! You'll want to read the INN faq's (actually try to read all of them if you can..) then edit the config.data file and reset some things if you want, like where the news articles are spooled etc. Then rebuild according to the Install docs. The only problem I've found is Innwatch exhibits a weird delayed-crash action which I won't describe now but I've been running INN without the benefit of Innwatch for a week now. Maybe this weekend I'll try to figure that out. Just testing with a few 386bsd groups and everything appears to be running fine. regards kim -- kimc@w8hd.org
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