From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 02:17:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912CC16A401 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:17:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucegb@realtime.net) Received: from ruth.realtime.net (mercury.realtime.net [205.238.132.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5547813C44B for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:17:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucegb@realtime.net) Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain (cpe-72-177-112-115.austin.res.rr.com [72.177.112.115]) by realtime.net (Realtime Communications Advanced E-Mail Services V9.2) with ESMTP id 74965547-1817707 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:17:57 -0500 Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3J2Hs0o090502 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:17:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brucegb@tigerfish2.my.domain) Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l3J2Hs1x090492 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:17:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brucegb) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:17:54 -0500 From: Bruce Burden To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070419021754.GA51543@tigerfish2.my.domain> References: <1176907072_43299@ruth.realtime.net> <20070418151325.GK85859@tigerfish2.my.domain> <20070418161516.GF70813@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070418161516.GF70813@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Subject: Re: Why is dmidecode failing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:17:58 -0000 On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said: > > > > ===> Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403 > > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids - found > > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found > > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on executable: dmidecode - not found > > This says that dmidecode isn't in your path. Make sure that > /usr/local/sbin is in your path, since that's where dmidecode is > installed. > Sigh. So simple. So obvious. So infuriating when it does not work! Thank you, I do not normally have /usr/local/ sbin in my path, obviously. Bruce -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes