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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.primenet.com!bkogawa From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ports disillusionment for Novice Date: 29 Jun 1997 00:03:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5p51b4$8gi@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <33B5295F.84CAD6F7@magibox.net> X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.102 (bkogawa) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43763 Ken <welk@magibox.net> writes: >I post this for whatever discussion and/or value it might have. >From a unix and FreeBSD perspective, this is the vew of a novice. >It is disappointing to fail to successfully install any of the 3 ports >attempted. >wwwcount, which ended with a bad checksum error when make install was >run. This usually happens when the software version has changed without the archive's file name changing. You can remove the checksums, which (a) reduces security (you might be getting a trojan horse'd archive), and (b) may not work anyway (if the changes are legitimate, the port may fail). >The second port attempted was imap-uw, which had a number of errors >reported during make install. This could be understood since imap-uw is >not in the ports-2.1.7 directory and therefore may require a higher >version of FreeBSD to install successfully. This sounds likely. >The third port attempted was qpopper, which seemed to be going fine >until this result: >> ===> Installing for qpop-2.2 >> >> mtree: unknown group wheel This sounds like you do not have a wheel group. This is odd: what does your /etc/group file look like? (wheel should appear first in your group list, something like this: wheel:*:0:root ) hope that helps. -- bryan k. ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>