Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:47:49 -1000 From: "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" <art@hawaii.rr.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: whereis(1) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990908094749.008ca100@clients1.hawaii.rr.com>
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Whereis is driving me nuts, it thinks I have a directory however the directory
does not exist. For example:
root@pilikia# whereis myfile
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man!
myfile:
I do not have this directory.
root@pilikia# ls -l /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man
ls: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man: No such file or directory
my version of perl is 5.00503
root@pilikia# ls -l /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3072 Jul 4 11:26 man3
I tried searching my entire filesystem for a possible symlink to a
nonexistant file left behind from the previous perl version
find / -type l -ls | grep '5.00502'
however nothing was found. I also tried running the update script
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate manually, it ran fine however the
problem still exists. How can I rid myself of this bogus reference?
--
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/ ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
/--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,
/ (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts.
-- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
Arthur W. Neilson III, KH7PZ
Bank of Hawaii Tech Support
art@hawaii.rr.com
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