Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:38:43 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Michael T. Gray, met" <mtg@dmi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poof.... it's gone?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980111221859.8363A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <34B9B02F.E6B@dmi.net>
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Michael T. Gray, met wrote: > Hi, > Managed to get my first server up just a couple days ago. Asked > everyone about FTP Serving software for webpages to customers. One of > the most frequent suggestions was wu-ftpd. I downloaded, installed ran > the Make utility, looks like everything worked fine. Now where did that > file go? I am still having a bit of trouble understanding where files > are going and why. I know DOS very well, UNIX is still new (~ week). > > Thanks in advance, MTG It sounds like you downloaded the port and ran "make install". If so you have the ports files somewhere: a wu-ftpd directory with a "pkg" subdirectory. In this subdir is a file called PLIST, which is a list of the files the port installs, by default in /usr/local. Note in this case (not the only one) there are two binaries with the same name--/usr/libexec/ftpd and /usr/local/libexec/ftpd. Which one runs depends on what you've got in inetd.conf. If the binary runs from the command line and there are binaries with the same name in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, which would happen if you installed a port of perl (version 5.something, e.g.,), which one runs depends on what's in the user's path statement and the order of the directories there. The PLIST file will also tell you what other files (configuration files, for example) got installed. Annelise
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