Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:40:23 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> Cc: Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: whereis in 2.2.8-RELEASE Message-ID: <19981202124023.A303@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <002501be1da0$0949ffd0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812020911310.736-100000@oz.phear.net> <002501be1da0$0949ffd0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au>
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John Saunders wrote:
> Looking at /usr/sys/usr.sbin/sysctl/Makefile makes me think
> that a symbolic link has gone missing in your system.
>
> BINDIR= /sbin
> LINKS= ${BINDIR}/sysctl /usr/sbin/sysctl
That's not here on current.
# @(#)Makefile 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
# $Id: Makefile,v 1.3 1997/12/18 15:34:08 bde Exp $
PROG= sysctl
MAN8= sysctl.8
BINDIR= /sbin
NOSHARED?= yes
.include <bsd.prog.mk>
Quite why that's under /usr/src/usr.sbin instead of /usr/src/sbin I
don't know, perhaps someone would care to explain.
Besides, doesn't LINKS= create hard links? That's not much help when
/sbin and /usr/sbin are different filesystems, so your symlink solution
seems better.
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