From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 09:55:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B417A16A420 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:55:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from mail.dc-servers.com (mail3.dc-servers.com [83.243.101.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E994A43D49 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: (qmail 20118 invoked by uid 399); 28 Feb 2006 09:55:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alfie.jigsawhq.com) (work@ashleymoran.me.uk@213.106.224.113) by mail.dc-servers.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2006 09:55:52 -0000 From: Ashley Moran Organization: Codeweavers Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:54:31 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602231133.22224.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> <200602270919.13444.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> <200602271746.42391.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200602271746.42391.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602280954.31239.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" Subject: Re: portsnap failing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:55:52 -0000 On Monday 27 February 2006 23:46, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > That file you were missing, lives in /var/db/portsnap/files/ , did you > look there to see if it was there or not? No it's not there. The point is, portsnap should be fetching it but isn't. > Did you do anything to the setup of portsnap? > > Did you somehow, happen to install portsnap from the ports system? No definitely not. One of the reasons I like FreeBSD 6 is because portsnap is in the base system. > A dumb question I know, but it's got to be asked. did you make any > changes to /etc/portsnap.conf? Nope- stock file. > Just what portsnap files did you delete? The whole of /var/db/portsnap (well actually I just moved them, and put them back when the download from scratch failed). > How did you use portsnap, any options when you ran it? portsnap fetch, plain and simple > Just a funny thought: do you have defaultrouter="some IP address" > in /etc/rc.conf. No, I'm using DCHP. But the (low level) network is not an issue- the server is otherwise fully functional. > One final thought, did portsnap ever work for you? *Possibly* not. On the test machine I installed, then definitely not - it failed first time. However, the other server I used