From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 18:25:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11672 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (root@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11657 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:25:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA02647 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 19:35:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 19:35:57 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: pkg_add not working Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Something has caused my pkg_add command to cease working (it was working as recently as the 15th or 16th) Now, when I just type pkg_add it returns nothing, but if I give it an incorrect name, it says it either cannot find the file or it is not a package, and if I give it a real package name, it simply exits as it did when I didn't supply any arguments. It continues to do this even though I have since upgraded my system (to the 1/1/98 SNAP of 2.2) as well as upgrading pkg_add from source. Does anyone know how I might be able to fix this? Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations http://www.freebsd.org ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************