From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 15:19:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mia.bellsouth.net (mail2.mia.bellsouth.net [205.152.16.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE511515F for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from otterr@bellsouth.net) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-77-244-61.mia.bellsouth.net [216.77.244.61]) by mail2.mia.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id SAA23222; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:19:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <387F679B.29594FC2@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:14:51 +0000 From: Otter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James A Wilde Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chmod: invalid file mode: 04711 References: <7787.947865635@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <00a501bf5eb8$aa0e71d0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James A Wilde wrote: > > > > > Tanked home the appropriate tars, > > > > Does that mean you downloaded the port directory files (Makefile, pkg/, > > files/ etc) or just the source tarballs ? If you fetched the ports, > > then try contacting the maintainer of the ssh2 port (his address is in > > the ssh2 Makefile. If you just fetched source tarballs, try using the > > ports or packages. :-) ports are there for a reason... if you don't have any luck with ssh2, check out openssh (located in /usr/ports/seurity/openssh). just a simple "make install" will fetch and install it for you. it works quite nicely with my fbsd/winblows network here. -Otter > > > Started with the first method and then tried another I had seen, get > dirname.tar, which I assume is what you call the tarball method. > > However, it is not the freebsd.org ports that I am now having problems with, > it is the ones from www.ssh.fi, if I remember correctly. > > mvh/regards > > James Wilde > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message