From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 09:36:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13533 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13508 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA16896; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:36:25 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:36:25 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Gary Landers cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Simple UNIX question In-Reply-To: <35C8871D.392D5FF6@tein.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Gary Landers wrote: > how do I create shortcuts or aliases or whatever it is called when a > file name in a directory listing refers to another file or location. > > a listing in /usr/local/bin show up like this > perl@ -> /usr/local/bin/perl5.00404 Just symlink them, ie, I did: In /usr/bin: bash# rm perl bash# ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl5.00404 perl And away you go. By default, FreeBSD puts in a real old version of Perl - heaps of stuff doesn't work - symlinking to perl 5 fixes alot of problems. A good example is innd wouldn't run, as it is very Perl 5 dependant. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message