From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 6 18:50: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA8714D9A for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id SAA95886; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:50:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199911070250.SAA95886@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Jay Krell" Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack of emailaddress Reply-To: "Jay Krell" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/14744; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jay Krell" To: "Brett Taylor" Cc: 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 To: jay.krell@cornell.edu Cc: 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