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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SUPing ports distribution??
Date: 26 Mar 1997 16:49:12 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5h9cgj$75s$1@spaceghost.cat.pdx.edu>,
daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) writes:
>
>
> 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??
I'm not sure how "supported" sup is these days.... (I've never used it
myself).
Cvsup works ok and is supposed to be quicker than sup. There are
supfile examples in /usr/share/examples/cvsup.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !