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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:45:47 -0500
From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To: Tim McCullagh <timbo@halenet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: CVSUP
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In-Reply-To: <0c6501c07c52$a17f2240$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au>; from timbo@halenet.com.au on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:45:57PM +1000
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Are you running this as root?  Assumably, your ports tree is not
world-writeable, so you need to run cvsup as as user with enough
priveledge to write to the dirs where your ports live...

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:45:57PM +1000, Tim McCullagh wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Can anyone explain what I may have done wrong here
> 
> I am trying to cvsup the FreeBSD ports
> 
> When i use the command
> 
> /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile I get the following error message
> 
> mailsat# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile
> Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
> Connecting to cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org
> Cannot connect to cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org: Permission denied
> Will retry at 14:50:02
> ^C
> 
> my ports-supfile includes
> 
> *default host=cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> 
> # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line.
> *default compress
> 
> ports-base
> ports-security
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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