From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Jul  7 16:52:12 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from prserv.net (out4.prserv.net [32.97.166.34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8726637B75D
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri,  7 Jul 2000 16:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from mick3@ibm.net)
Received: from ibm.net ([166.72.155.154]) by prserv.net (out4) with SMTP
          id <200007072352022390372k1ce>; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:52:03 +0000
Message-ID: <39666D3C.73D4C8C2@ibm.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 16:52:28 -0700
From: John Michelini <mick3@ibm.net>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Command line question
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

When I type   cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep <ENTER> and then   make  I
get:   host name lookup failure couldn't fetch it retrieve this port
manually into /usr/ports/distfiles.  Why would I get this message and
how would one manually retrieve the port into another directory?



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message