On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:37:54AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > forgive the newbie question please > > I am trying to install a package called bpalogin (it authorises Bigpond > Broadband Cable users (Bigpond is an ISP in Australia)) and I have > followed the instructions from the > http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download > > I have untarred th file and tried a make > the result is > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk", line 0: Cannot open /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 0: Cannot open /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > make: fatal errors encoutered --cannot continue > > I have set write permissions on both files and write and execute > permission on the Directories
It's trying to open those files for reading, not writing. Please show us a ls -l of those directories; it's possible you have a corrupted installation. Kris
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