<BR><B><I>Kim Culhan <w8hdkim@gmail.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Tue, October 10, 2006 23:45, Frank Griffith wrote:<BR>>> Kim Culhan <W8HDKIM@GMAIL.COM>wrote: On Mon, October 9, 2006 19:07,<BR>> Frank Griffith wrote:<BR><BR>>> If this doesn't work it would probably be best to do a fresh<BR>>> installation of FBSD and take it from there.<BR><BR>> This is what sucks about Windows. And it's hard to believe I had to<BR>> resort to such tactics to clear the cobwebs with FreeBSD.<BR><BR>In the case of Windows its not unusual for settings to be made in the registry<BR>by installed programs with no 'easy way' to trace their location or the registry<BR>values which were set.<BR><BR>This is not the case with FreeBSD.<BR><BR>The fact there were files in /usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules left over from<BR>the first installation attempt is a design 'feature' of
the Asterisk<BR>build system<BR>and not something related to the FreeBSD operating system or the Asterisk port.<BR><BR>When the Asterisk port is installed, there are not many places where<BR>files are written so 'clearing cobwebs' can be fairly easilly done<BR>when the 'webs<BR>are known to be coming from the Asterisk port itself.<BR><BR>If you read the archives of this list, I think you will agree that in<BR>most cases when<BR>things don't seem to be working the way they should, the cause has been<BR>traced to factors other than a defective port or a flaw in FreeBSD.<BR><BR>-kim<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Asterisk-BSD mailing list<BR>Asterisk-BSD@lists.digium.com<BR>http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd<BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <div><BR>That's all true...but what else is also true was all I did was this:</div> <div> </div> <div>portsnap fetch ; portsnap extract</div> <div> </div> <div>cd /usr/ports/net/asterisk</div>
<div>make deinstall</div> <div>make install clean</div> <div> </div> <div>Things went pretty much downhill from there. But thanks to everyone who offered advice. And I now have the latest version of FreeBSD-RELEASE on my system.</div> <div> </div><p> 
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