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Subject: Re: pkg_add Broken Pipe
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Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> writes:

> pkg_add -r nessus
> Fetching
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/nessus.tbz... Done.
> Broken pipe
> 
> what does this mean?

Hard to say.  
Fetch the package to your local disk and use the -v flag to pkg_add
it.  That will give you more information.