From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 22:40:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187991065674 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:40:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBEF8FC08 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:40:09 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp024.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-18.01 64bit (built Jul 15 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LLT00MNFQYX5H00@asmtp024.mac.com> for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-05-26_08:2011-05-26, 2011-05-26, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1105260124 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <20110526220140.GA13062@skytracker.ca> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700 Message-id: <30114554-DF76-4375-9A80-EEFFE2112165@mac.com> References: <20110526220140.GA13062@skytracker.ca> To: David Banning X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9 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: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:40:10 -0000 On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not support. > I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting > this error on almost every port; > > # make > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE > ===> Extracting for rsnapshot-1.3.1 > /sbin/sha256: not found > *** Error code 127 > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot. I believe you can obtain a sha256 binary from GNU coreutils (although GNU calls it sha256sum), and then install it to /sbin. Regards, -- -Chuck