From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 21: 1:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.hawaii.rr.com (smtp3.hawaii.rr.com [204.210.97.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0D214A12 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:01:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from art@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from taz - 24.31.76.79 by smtp3.hawaii.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1774.114.11); Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:01:59 -1000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990908180142.008c38d0@clients1.hawaii.rr.com> X-Sender: art@clients1.hawaii.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:01:42 -1000 To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au From: "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" Subject: Re: whereis Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199909082146.HAA24159@goblin.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:46 AM 09/09/1999 +1000, you wrote: >I have same problem exactly ... the only cure I know is to use "find / -name" instead of "whereis" ...... someone posted a note to the list a while back stating he identified a perl problem and had fixed it with a symbolic link somewhere but it sure didn't work for me when I tried it. Well a crappy way to fix it is to cd /usr/local/lib/perl5 ln -s 5.00503 5.00502 You won't get the message anymore however you now have a dufus symlink. -- __ / ) _/_ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message