From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 11 13:33:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D5216A41F for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:33:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA9643D48 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:33:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 6187 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2005 13:33:03 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Sep 2005 13:33:03 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 264022F; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:33:01 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Vizion References: <200509091638.13875.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Sep 2005 09:33:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200509091638.13875.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Message-ID: <44irx7ybjm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Katrina project -- How can I get the libmagic distribution for freebsd 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:33:06 -0000 Vizion writes: > I have reason to doubt the validity of my libmagic distribution. > > I urgently need to resolve this for a non-profit project to provide services > for Katrina survivors. > > Does anyone help me to get and re-install that distribution correctly? > > Thanks > > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 > root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC libmagic is part of the base system, and imports are regularly taken from the maintainer. The easiest thing to do would be to update your whole system; short of that, updating just that library from the FreeBSD cvs tree would probably be the simplest. If you really want to go to source, I recall there being some pointers in a makefile indicating where it came from... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/