Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:06:49 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: frank@exit.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware 2.0. Message-ID: <861z45yieu.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:31:00 -0700 (PDT)" <200004161831.LAA06667@realtime.exit.com> References: <200004161831.LAA06667@realtime.exit.com>
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At Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:31:00 -0700 (PDT), Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote: > I just installed this beast and have run into a weird problem. I try to use > the wizard to configure things and it complains first that it can't find > 'netscape' (I run the Linux netscape; it's in /compat/linux with symlinks > from /usr/local) then that it can't find 'grep.' > > No matter what path I give it, it keeps failing. I don't understand this. > Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? > -- > Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ I presume you have `/usr/local/bin' and/or `/usr/bin' earlier than `/bin' in your PATH. Hence Linuxulator finds `/usr/bin/grep' first instead of `/compat/linux/bin/grep' and VMware runs it only to fail because it's FreeBSD's grep which does not search /compat/linux automatically unlike /compat/linux/bin/grep which runs under Linuxulator. A workaround is to prepare a wrapper shell script which sets PATH /bin on the top and then runs VMware. Good luck. P.S. If it works successfully, I'd like to add this tip to the FreeBSD.Hints as a potential FAQ. Thank you for the report. -- / /__ __ / ) ) ) ) / Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( <knu@idaemons.org> "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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