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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 2021 07:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header
Message-ID:  <202106111408.15BE8Jtb024451@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <20210611003113.GA9021@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 03:26:58PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:02 AM Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 9. Jun 2021, at 01:15, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ?On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 15:11 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > >>> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 09:41:34 +0000
> > > >>> Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:58:01PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > > >>>>> Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where
> > > >>>>> a
> > > >>>>> file on your runtime system comes from in the source world.
> > > >>
> > > >> There is a command for that which does or use to do a pretty
> > > >> decent job of it called whereis(1).
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > revolution > whereis ntp.conf
> > > > ntp.conf:
> > > > revolution > whereis netif
> > > > netif:
> > >
> > > That line might make it to a shirt one day:
> > >
> > > > revolution > whereis services
> > >
> > > ;)
> > > Michael
> > >
> > Just to clarify for those not willing or able to RTFM, it only works for
> > executables, not conf files or libraries. It reports the location of the
> > executable, the man page and the port location, if it is a port. For those
> > who did RTFM, it is wrong. It claims that it reports on the location of the
> > source, but that is not the case as far as I know. I have never seen it
> > return anything from /usr/src.
> > > whereis cc
> > cc: /usr/bin/cc /usr/share/man/man1/cc.1.gz
> > > whereis postfix
> > postfix: /usr/local/sbin/postfix /usr/local/man/man1/postfix.1.gz
> > /usr/ports/mail/postfix
> 
> I should probably just lurk, but I believe the command that
> some are looking for is ident(1).  This command is, of course,
> broken by the lost of $FreeBSD$ expansion.

ident provides a bit more detail, but yes, it WAS the solution, and
it would be nice to have that back.  

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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