hi guys, i am finding it a bit frustrating to work with trac... all i want is to get the following three jobs done... and since i couldn't get my way pass macforge.net login so i thought i'ld rather let someone friendly over at the mailing list help me out... 1. file the below errors for installing http_ping :~ $ sudo port install http_ping Password: ---> Fetching http_ping ---> Verifying checksum(s) for http_ping ---> Extracting http_ping ---> Configuring http_ping ---> Building http_ping ---> Staging http_ping into destroot Error: Target com.apple.destroot returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_net_http_ping/work/http_ping" && make install DESTDIR=/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_net_http_ping/work/destroot " returned error 2 Command output: rm -f /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_net_http_ping/work/destroot/opt/local/bin/http_ping cp http_ping /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_net_http_ping/work/destroot/opt/local/bin rm -f /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_net_http_ping/work/destroot/opt/local/man/man1/http_ping.1 cp http_ping.1 /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_net_http_ping/work/destroot/opt/local/man/man1 cp: /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_net_http_ping/work/destroot/opt/local/man/man1: No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. :~$ 2. submit port for connect.c PortSystem 1.0 name connect version 1.96 categories net maintainers shanali@yahoo.com description "Make socket connection using SOCKS4/5 and HTTP tunnel." long_description "connect.c is the simple relaying command \ to make network connection via SOCKS and https proxy." master_sites http://zippo.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/ distname ${portname}.c checksums ${distname} md5 b856937f1cdfca7a3ccfb2fac36ef726 3. submit port for for mget PortSystem 1.0 name mget version 1.4.2 categories net maintainers shanali@yahoo.com description "Multithreaded commandline web-download manager" long_description "mGet is a command line download manager. It splits the \ file into a number of segments and uses several separate \ threads to download each segment. It can handle proxies \ and can tunnel through them to get files blocked by proxies. \ Currently mGet only handles HTTP downloads directly, while FTP \ downloads must go through a proxy." master_sites http://cs-people.bu.edu/dbera/activities/projects/mget/ distname ${portname}-${portversion} checksums ${distname}${extract.suffix} md5 1450256d6484d357cae54b01c1b16e7f -- Best Regards.