On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:

> pkg_add addnerd-1.6.tgz
> 
> and it replied:
> 
> pkg_add: Database-dir /var/db/pkg cannot be generated, aborting.
> 
> but I checked, and /var/db/pkg is there, but empty. I tried deleting pkg
> and tried again, with the same result.
> 

you did do the pkg_add as root?

-Dan