From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 6:27:57 2002 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 7F85737B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE91A43E42 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g6ADRqO24476; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:27:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200207101327.g6ADRqO24476@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Ftp question To: grant.cooper@nucleus.com (Grant Cooper) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:27:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-Questions) In-Reply-To: <00b701c22758$7ef6bd20$23b9fea9@ab.hsia.telus.net> from "Grant Cooper" at Jul 09, 2002 08:54:14 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I think my file was corrupted. How can I ftp dirrectly from a server. From > the command line in FreeBSD I typed in. I know how to connect to my server > and use put and get but I can't seem to log in. I don't think I need to? > > ftp://apache.valueclick.com/pub/apache/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.39.tar.gz > Well, you should really be using the ports process to download and install these things. Just go to the appropriate directory in /usr/ports -- go to /usr/ports/www/ and pick the apache your want, cd to that one and type 'make' and then 'make install' or even just 'make install' It will do everything for you. You DID install the ports structure didn't you!!! NOTE: that ports structure is just a set of directories with make files that know how to download, build and install the stuff. It doesn't contain the actual ports software, until you go in there and type make in one of them. Unless you are doing some stripped down thing that you already are clear on what you want or you are extremely short on disk space - no sysem is that short nowdays - you should always get the whole ports tree when you do you initial install. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message