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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.stealth.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!208.197.151.4!news.esinet.net!news1.cstone.net!not-for-mail From: Paul Nguyen <pauln@cstone.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SUPing ports distribution?? Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:56:09 -0500 Organization: Cornerstone Networks Lines: 29 Message-ID: <33394719.766C@cstone.net> References: <5h9cgj$75s$1@spaceghost.cat.pdx.edu> Reply-To: pauln@cstone.net NNTP-Posting-Host: gosub.cstone.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) To: Dave Roethig <daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37763 Dave Roethig wrote: I've been trying to SUP the ports distribution but I have been getting the following denial: SUP 9.26 (4.3 BSD) for file /home/sup/portsSUPFILE at Mar 25 03:05:01 SUP: Can't connect to server for supfilesrv: Connection refused SUP: Will retry in 119 seconds It will try a few more times and then quit. Here's the SUP file I'm using: ports-all release=current host=SUP.FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/bob prefix=/bob/ports delete old use-rel-suffix Does anyone have any ideas why I can't SUP?? Thanks Dave Yeah, I did the same. Check out www.freebsd.org and look in the handbook on the subject cvsup. This protocol has replaced sup as the one to update freebsd. IMHO, I think it is faster and more flexible than sup was. -Paul