Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:50:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack of emailaddress Message-ID: <199911070250.SAA95886@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/14744; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu> To: "Brett Taylor" <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack of emailaddress Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:42:59 -0800 I just went into the Tk directory and selected everything, without reading what stuff was. That should work, or at least error better -- it just hangs. - Jay -----Original Message----- From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: jay.krell@cornell.edu <jay.krell@cornell.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Saturday, November 06, 1999 10:27 AM Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack of emailaddress >Hi, > >On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 jay.krell@cornell.edu wrote: > >> >How-To-Repeat: Do a clean install of FreeBSD 3.3 from the CD, don't >> do much/any network configuration, select the tk/tksetiathome (not >> sure of exact name), package. >Fix: Not sure. The ports collection is >> a good idea, but it seems you open yourself up to a lot of this sort >> of thing, and I'm not sure you have enough control over it to fix it. > >So you've done no network set up and you want to complain that the tkseti >won't run because it can't find a valid email address???? > >If you don't have networking set up, how on earth do you plan to >contribute to a distributed network computing project? > >In short, this is not a problem w/ the port, but that the machine isn't >set up correctly yet. > >Brett >***************************************************** >Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * >Dept of Chem and Physics * >Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * >Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * >Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * >***************************************************** > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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