From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 22:14:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA15164 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:14:56 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA15158 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:14:52 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA27410; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:13:25 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199503080613.WAA27410@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: SUP To: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:13:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503080610.BAA01117@goof.com> from "matthew c. mead" at Mar 8, 95 01:10:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1140 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > going totally crazy, but I can't get a working supfile for my life! Could > > > someone help me out? What I want to do is have sup update the src tree each > > > night, excluding the ports sources. My system sources live in /usr/src: > > > What values are you using for base= and prefix= in your supfile? > > The standard ones... > > > Did you look at the file: > > /usr/src/share/FAQ/extras/standard-supfile > > yeah... as root, I got this: > bash# supscan -f standard-supfile Argh.... supscan is for the sup SERVER to build the sup list files. You should be doing something like: sup -v standard-supfile > > > Also when running sup can it should be run as root, or it should be able > > to write to /usr/src [it needs to create /usr/src/sup/... for state > > information]. > > As above, I was running as root. Any ideas? Wrong command... replace supscan with sup and -f with -v, and here is the virtual conical shaped hat <:-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD