From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 12:56:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx3.port.ru (mx3.port.ru [194.67.23.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6568F37B42C for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 12:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from savajob@mail.ru) Received: from f3.int ([10.0.0.50] helo=f3.mail.ru) by mx3.port.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #12) id 154T8D-000GZ7-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 May 2001 23:56:49 +0400 Received: from mail by f3.mail.ru with local (Exim 3.14 #12) id 154T8C-0006aa-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 28 May 2001 23:56:48 +0400 Received: from [195.248.165.167] by win.mail.port.ru with HTTP; Mon, 28 May 2001 19:56:48 +0000 (GMT) From: "UkrBannerNet Agent" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question. Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: [195.248.165.167] Reply-To: "UkrBannerNet Agent" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:56:48 +0400 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 Some days ago I installed FreeBSD 4.2 on my PC, but everytime I was trying to run one of utilites from /usr/ports/ the answer ":Permision denied" was given. I don't know how to solve this problem. I tried to change user to root, but the result was the same. One of my friends said me the following: The Deafalt ports mechanism searches for the tarball in the following folder :/usr/ports/distfiles, but you can't add anything there, for it is a link for your cd-rom(it is not allowed to write to cd-rom) that's why when you trying to launch any of ports you receive that kind of request. It is possible to change the tarball folder:DISTDIR=/where/you/put/it make install. That is what my friend said, but he doesn't know what to do if the port was already installed, but the proble still stays. As I am new to unix, I ask you to describe the solution. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message