From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 13:34:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C9C37BE8A for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:34:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14578; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:34:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA17850; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:34:09 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: mick3@ibm.net (John Michelini) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command line question Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:29:48 GMT Message-ID: <3968e065.632839855@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Jul 2000 19:52:22 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >When I type cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep and then make I >get: host name lookup failure couldn't fetch it retrieve this port >manually into /usr/ports/distfiles. Why would I get this message and >how would one manually retrieve the port into another directory? The Make file is trying to ftp to a host to get the file. You get that error when your computer cannot find the IP address of the host where the source code resides. Is your computer connected to the net at the time and do you have a valid nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message