From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 8:43:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEA237B401 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5QFhNx01392; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:43:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200106261543.f5QFhNx01392@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Christian Lacunza Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ok, where's fvm2rc go? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:32:19 PDT." <15160.579.872508.830330@hp0.pacbell.net> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:43:23 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > here's how things look on my system: > $ locate system.fvwm2rc > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/2.2/system.fvwm2rc > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/2.2/system.fvwm2rc-sample-1 > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/2.2/system.fvwm2rc-sample-2 thanks. For some reason, on the following boot, it bothered to read ~/.fvwmrc (or .fvwmrc2; I seem to have both that are either identical or hard links; the timestamps & sizes are identical. I think this came after I discovered that vi is *not* /bin/vi, but /usr/bin/vi . . . which isn't much help when your problem is that you need to edit /etc/fstab to change where /usr is . . . I actually used ed to fix it . . . . (OK, if I hadn't already been in crisis mode before drdos gates'd me, that part might have been fun :) However, trying your way, I get fac13ttyp1:hawk>locate system.fvwm2rcd locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database > if you still have your package database, you can look there too: > $ grep fvwm2rc /var/db/pkg/fvwm2-i18n-2.2/+CONTENTS I do this a lot. But I had just foolishly deleted the contents there (instead of saving them--*DOH*) because they were interfering with builiding packages on my new /usr. [I had to reconstruct the partition table and missed, so / was recovered, but /usr started at not quite the right place--most but not all of files appeared in /usr/lost&found . . . thanks hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message