From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 18:11:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB6A106564A for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:11:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFE58FC0C for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:11:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7036AFC1FE; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:11:17 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:11:17 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <3.0.1.32.20090124070639.00f092c0@sage-american.com> <3.0.1.32.20090126062743.00ea1680@sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20090126062743.00ea1680@sage-american.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901260911.17420.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Registry corrupt? 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: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:11:18 -0000 On Monday 26 January 2009 03:27:43 Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 04:27 PM 1.25.2009 -0900, you wrote: > >On Saturday 24 January 2009 04:06:39 Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote: > >> >On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone > >> > >> BUT, it is executable and using the exact path to the program still > >> gives this error: > >> /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not found > > > >file /usr/bin/perl will give you the answer. > > > >-- > >Mel > > Yes, know it's perl and here's how I really use fastest_cvsup: > # /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h `(fastest_cvsup -q -c us )` \ > # /root/kernels/7.0.src-supfile > > The above finds the fastest fbsd source and cvsup's from it. But, was > getting "fastest_cvsup not found" fastest_cvsup did not find perl. Your /usr/bin/perl is a *broken* symlink to a perl version that does not exist anymore, which file /usr/bin/perl would show you if you actually did run that command. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.