From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 09:11:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10967 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10960 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA29490; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:02:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:02:40 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Kevin Weiss cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ported software still not working In-Reply-To: <199901270735.XAA10042@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Kevin Weiss wrote: > ok...when I try to do a make install of any ported software (from my HDD), > I get the following error message... > > port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again > ***Error code 1 > Stop Looks like you don't have write permissions on /usr/ports/distfiles And that's normal by the way. Try again after su'ing to root. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message