On Sep 25, 2008, at 19:46, Mark Hattam wrote: > Is there something amiss with my MacPorts system?
Not that I know of. > I did a > > sudo port install arpwatch > > and it installed arpwatch into /opt/local/sbin ... just the > executable, no directory. On my system, it installs these binaries: ${prefix}/sbin/arpsnmp ${prefix}/sbin/arpwatch Not sure why you're getting a single binary called "sbin". Could you show us the output of "port contents arpwatch"? > and without making a default (empty) arp.dat and without the > ethercodes.dat > > It also didn't seem to complain about not installing libpcap which > seems to be a pre-requisite according to all the online documentation > about arpwatch. But arpwatch does seem to work regardless. arpwatch does not declare dependencies on any other software. I do not know if this is correct. > It would also be helpful to put in how to generate a up-to-date > ethercodes.dat file, not least as I had to work out how to achieve > this > sh massagevendor /opt/local/sbin/oui.txt >/opt/local/sbin/ > ethercodes.dat > having downloaded the oui.txt from > http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt > > (or even generate an up to date ethercodes.dat file as part of the > port install) I don't see any tickets filed for arpwatch, so you should probably file some. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users