From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 16 12: 8: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp [210.234.123.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1154137B8F8; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knu@idaemons.org) Received: from daemon.local.idaemons.org (pc343042.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp [203.140.143.42]) by ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (8.9.1/3.7W 03/13/00) with ESMTP id EAA23283; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:07:23 +0900 (JST) Received: by daemon.local.idaemons.org (8.9.3/3.7W) id EAA05885; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:06:51 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:06:49 +0900 Message-ID: <861z45yieu.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" To: frank@exit.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware 2.0. 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> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.1 (Purple Rain) EMIKO/1.13.12 (Euglena sociabilis) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) APEL/10.2 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Associated I. Daemons X-PGP-Public-Key: finger knu@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1BEF D9B2 BABD 25D7 659A FD08 89C2 F3BE E981 4E16 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.13.12 - "Euglena sociabilis") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:31:00 -0700 (PDT), Frank Mayhar 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 / (_ / ( (__( "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