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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:40:01 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel makefiles broken??
Message-ID:  <20010824144001.E304@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010824143417.1983A-100000@dros.delnoch.net>; from jeff@delnoch.net on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:36:51PM -0400
References:  <15238.39852.905127.192170@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010824143417.1983A-100000@dros.delnoch.net>

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Jeff Ito <jeff@delnoch.net> probably said:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Robert Huff wrote:
> > 	I checked /, and /modules is a file, not a directory.

> what sort of file is /modules?  it should be a directory
> 
> # ls -al /
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     3584 Aug 24 01:01 modules
> 
> 
> I would rm/mv the "current" modules file that is there to another
> location, and then try re-installing world

The installation stuff for /modules assumes that /modules/ exists
and is a directory. If it doesn't exist the first module install
will create it as a normal file and the second install will fail.

rm /modules ; mkdir -m 755 /modules

P.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu


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