From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Nov 3 04:10:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA18304 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 04:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagada.grolier.fr (tagada.grolier.fr [194.158.97.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA18288 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 04:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by tagada.grolier.fr (8.7.6/MGC-960516) with ESMTP id NAA14713 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 13:12:02 +0100 (MET) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA02232 for bugs@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 22:58:50 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id UAA26384; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:34:15 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611021934.UAA26384@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:34:15 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs and glitches References: <327B406F.3F48@cris.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.49.04 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2632 In-Reply-To: <327B406F.3F48@cris.com>; from amg on Nov 2, 1996 12:37:03 +0000 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to amg: > 6. using the bash shell, because I cannot get a good Korn shell, > when issuing the command "/usr/bin/makewhatis", the response > is "invalid file or directory". However, the file does > exist with 555 permissions and a size of 11303 bytes. Are you sure you have perl in /usr/bin ? makewhatis is a Perl script and the system will give you the above message if it can't find the interpreter specified in the first line... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #26: Sun Oct 27 19:39:11 MET 1996