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From: "Michael P. Deslippe" <bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil>
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Bless you, my lad, I did the same thing!  Once I compiled Perl 5.003 
I renamed the 4.x perl.  I just created a link to it in /usr/bin and 
WHATIS is working perfectly.  Thank You!!!!

---Mike


> Date:          Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:22:59 -0800
> From:          Craig Shaver <craig@progroup.com>
> Organization:  Productivity Group, Inc.
> To:            bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil
> Cc:            questions@freefall.freebsd.org
> Subject:       Re: What does this mean from the nightly run?

> Michael P. Deslippe wrote:
> > 
> > Rebuilding whatis database:
> > Memory fault - core dumped
> > 
> > I don't have a WHATIS database, and why did I get a core dump?
> > 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6
> 
> I had a similar problem with 2.1.5 when I installed perl 5.x.  I moved
> /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl4.  Then I noticed the same log entry.  So
> I took a look at makewhatis and noticed it needed /usr/bin/perl --
> oops!  
> 
> So, makewhatis is a perl script in /usr/bin and is executed by using
> /usr/bin/perl.  Do you have a perl in /usr/bin?
> 
> -- 
> Craig Shaver  (craig@progroup.com)
> Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA  94088
> 
>