From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 21 14:03:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA17802 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:03:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from bogon.net (gw.bogon.net [204.137.132.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17788 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:03:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by bogon.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00773 for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:03:22 -0800 From: Wes Santee Message-Id: <199603212203.OAA00773@bogon.net> Subject: CNews port failing install... To: ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:03:21 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk During one of the install phases, a shell script called 'conf/histsetup' is called which contains the following snippet: -----cut----- lock -o LOCK $$ || { echo '*** cannot get the lock file' >&2 ; exit 1 ; } status=1 trap 'unlock LOCK ; trap 0 ; exit $status' 0 1 2 15 -----cut----- On FreeBSD, lock(1) locks the keyboard (and causes the install to fail since there is no '-o' option). Looks like this is trying to do a file locking check of some kind. Anybody know what the equivilent command in FreeBSD is? Cheers, -- ( -Wes Santee | No one told you when to run... ) ( http://www.oz.net/~wsantee \------------------------------- ) ( For PGP Key, email w/Subject: "Send PGP Key" Powered by FreeBSD )