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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:40:06 -0700
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Bart Trzynadlowski <btrzynadlowski@powernet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp permission denied?
Message-ID:  <19990601174006.A29162@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906011725190.797-100000@Brzuszek>; from Bart Trzynadlowski on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 05:31:58PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906011725190.797-100000@Brzuszek>

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On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 05:31:58PM -0700, Bart Trzynadlowski wrote:

> fetch: less-322.tar.gz: Permission denied

It is unlikely that every FTP server has started hating you.  More
likely, you do not have permission to create the file that you're
fetching.

The Ports Collection by default puts distfiles in /usr/ports/distfiles.
Check the permissions on that directory.

Matt

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Inertia is a property
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * of matter.


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