From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 3 13:01:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D322616A403 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:01:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A51643D8B for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:01:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:01:29 -0400 id 0005641E.45225F29.0001653B Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 Oct 2006 08:58:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:01:28 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Mbuthia Wangui" Message-Id: <20061003090128.f2defd78.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <03e101c6e6ea$a831a780$8e11fea9@user1> References: <03e101c6e6ea$a831a780$8e11fea9@user1> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:01:48 -0000 In response to "Mbuthia Wangui" : > I have a bandwidth manager running on FreeBSD 4.9 LOCAL. I want to > install net-snmp so that traffic generated on the bwmger can be pointed > to cacti (like mrtg). My problem is that I have gone through enough > manuals to get assistance on which commands I should run to install the > ports hierarchy. I have even tried using the cvsup utility but I get an > error: "Parsing supfile "ports-supfile" > Release not specified for collection "host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org". It > doesn't matter which host I use, the response is still the same. > > Is there something I'm doing wrong or missing out. Will really > appreciate prompt response. Please wrap your lines around 72 chars. I checked my crystal ball but didn't see your supfile or a cut/paste of the error message in it. Since you didn't provide those either, I can only make the wildest of guesses: Looks like you didn't specify a line like: *default release=cvs tag=. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.