From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 22:11:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA15099 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:11:32 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA15093 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:11:30 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA01117; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 01:10:54 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199503080610.BAA01117@goof.com> Subject: Re: SUP To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 01:10:54 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503080606.WAA27366@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 7, 95 10:06:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2778 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 supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for base supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for bin supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for etc supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for games supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for gnu supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for include supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for sys supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for lib supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for libexec supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for sbin supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for share supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for usrbin supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for usrsbin > 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? -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----