From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 5 18:10: 6 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 8476937B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C9443E09 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-63.214.218.254.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.218.254] helo=sparky) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Qe5I-0005jS-00; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 21:10:00 -0400 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Lee" Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 21:10:24 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <003701c22476$4bb529e0$6400a8c0@Administrator> Message-Id: Subject: Re: File System Monitoring MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 7/5/2002 6:50:01 PM, "Lee" wrote: >Sorry I should have been more clear. > >Although maybe this defeats the point in using FreeBSD I am not using the >Ports collection unless absolutley necessary. Mostly I am installing from >source. [snip] The ports work by downloading the source, adding any patches, then compiling and installing on your machine. (They also make sure you have the dependencies installed.) Any patches, as well as where the installed files go, should be clear from the files in each port's directory. Perhaps you knew this, but had some other reason for not using the ports? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message