Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software > > > using the ports collection. After typing "make install" everything > > > seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after > > > a few minutes: > > > > > > fetch time out > > > > > > It seemed to me that the mirror servers are not uptodate or that > > > some filenames have changed in the meantime, because fetching data > > > from ftp-servers worked a few times. > > > But in nearly all cases I had to copy the files manually in > > > /usr/ports/distfiles as "make install" finally suggested. > > > > > > So I installed a new ports-collection with sysinstall over ftp but > > > things haven't changed. I'm a little confused, because fetching data > > > from FreeSD ftp-servers doesn't work too (remember that some fetches > > > were successful!). > > > > > > Please help me, > > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Florian Hengstberger > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0025265 > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Are you behind a proxy?? I had a box behind squid once, > had to set fetch to look for the squid server
Or maybe behind a firewall that is messing up FTP? [Maybe the fetches that succeeded were all via HTTP?] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"