Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:39:03 -0400 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fetch error Message-ID: <4FE8E887.80605@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20120625225226.7a5c88db.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4FE8C72F.4040908@a1poweruser.com> <20120625225226.7a5c88db.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:16:47 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: >> I think I messed up the fetch setting in the envelope. >> >> Running 9.0 and get this console msg. >> >> env: usr/bin/fetch: No such file or directory >> >> When I enter env command to show all values I see nothing about fetch. > > The "env" command is often used as a "bridge" to explicitely > call commands where the actual location is not known or cannot > be predicted, e. g. > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > > at the start of a bash script instead of > > #!/bin/bash > > Linuxism or when statically linked, as opposed to > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > > default location on FreeBSD. > > > > In what operation do you receive the message? Maybe some typo > in a shell script or Makefile? > > Examine closely: > > env: usr/bin/fetch: No such file or directory > ^ > > The leading / is missing, because "usr/bin/fetch" would only > exist when $CWD is /, otherwise not; "/usr/bin/fetch" should > be correct. > > % which fetch > /usr/bin/fetch > ^ > > Here the correct path is provided. Maybe you ran into some script > that calls fetch the "bridge" way improperly? > > Test: > > % env usr/bin/fetch > env: usr/bin/fetch: No such file or directory > > And now properly: > > % env /usr/bin/fetch > usage: fetch [-146AadFlMmnPpqRrsUv] ............ > > It seems that env is used here to "set environment and execute > command"; see "man env" for details. > > > I get that env error when running the new csup. A few months back I was fooling around with pf firewall and was testing different env settings to test passive mode with pf. I think i changed this environment value and made a typo leaving off the leading /. I no longer remember the environment name I used when I did the typo. Can you help me with what the name is to use?
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