On Monday 27 February 2006 23:46, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > That file you were missing, lives in /var/db/portsnap/files/ , did you > look there to see if it was there or not?
No it's not there. The point is, portsnap should be fetching it but isn't. > Did you do anything to the setup of portsnap? > > Did you somehow, happen to install portsnap from the ports system? No definitely not. One of the reasons I like FreeBSD 6 is because portsnap is in the base system. > A dumb question I know, but it's got to be asked. did you make any > changes to /etc/portsnap.conf? Nope- stock file. > Just what portsnap files did you delete? The whole of /var/db/portsnap (well actually I just moved them, and put them back when the download from scratch failed). > How did you use portsnap, any options when you ran it? portsnap fetch, plain and simple > Just a funny thought: do you have defaultrouter="some IP address" > in /etc/rc.conf. No, I'm using DCHP. But the (low level) network is not an issue- the server is otherwise fully functional. > One final thought, did portsnap ever work for you? *Possibly* not. On the test machine I installed, then definitely not - it failed first time. However, the other server I used _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
