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From: alex@area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk (Alex McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Problems installing ports
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:24:08 GMT
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I'm a new FreeBSD sysadmin and am trying to install some ports, but am
having problems.  I type make, it can't find the correct file locally so
tries to ftp it, which is fine.  However, it invokes ncftp with a -N
parameter, which doesn't exist, so it fails.  

The big problem is that I can't find where the port makefiles are calling 
ncftp so I can defenestrate this option.

Can someone help?

Thanks in advance.


Alex