From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 14 18:46:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b110.otenet.gr [195.167.121.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280CA37B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: by hades.hell.gr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0560A2C2; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 04:08:45 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 04:08:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Karl Agee Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems getting updates (still) Message-ID: <20010715040844.A12939@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010714171415.12946.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010714171415.12946.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com>; from kdagee2@yahoo.com on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:14:15AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html 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 From: Karl Agee Subject: problems getting updates (still) Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:14:15AM -0700 > Hi again, having problems making cvsup > download updates for my 4.0 system to update it to > 4.3. When I run > > $ cuvsup supfile I'm assuming you mean `cvsup supfile' here. > using the supfile from the handbook, and setting the > server to cvsup8.freebsd.org (the closest one to me) What supfile? Can we see it, please? > I get the following output: > > Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its > hostname correct? This probably means that your /etc/hosts file does not contain IP addresses for one or more of the IP's your network interfaces have. What is your network setup ? > I posted a question on this yesterday. One respondent > suggested I have dhcp running but not enabled. It > isnt running on my box. > > anything else I can do?? Provide us with more information. Describing exactly what you did, and including all the relevant information. Any files that are involved, information on the setup of your machine, including but not limited to: network interfaces, how they are brought up, their addresses, etc. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message