From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 23:19:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652A137B406 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 23:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g4P6Jd194872; Sat, 25 May 2002 15:49:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200205250619.g4P6Jd194872@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: chuck sumner , Jonathan Chen Subject: Re: Ports failures - HELP! Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 15:53:19 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: References: <20020524154639.W53764-100000@periphery.2inches.com> In-Reply-To: <20020524154639.W53764-100000@periphery.2inches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 May 2002 08:17, chuck sumner wrote: > you might also try the -g flag > cvsup is trying to open a window on your display and cant figure where to > do it. the -g flag tells it to use text only mode. My guess is that neither of you is going to believe this ... cvsup -L2 -h -g cvsup10.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile gave a diferent error to the same command without the "-g". I noticed that the supfile recommended "L 2" rather than "L2", so I tried that. - same error. On a whim i tried moving the "-g" flag and entered: cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup10.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile AND IT WORKED! WOW! :-) Looks like the error messages are simply NOT a guide to what is wrong :-( -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message