Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:01:20 +1100 From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: "Jim Mock" <jim@phrantic.phear.net>, "Ben Smithurst" <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: whereis in 2.2.8-RELEASE Message-ID: <002501be1da0$0949ffd0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812020911310.736-100000@oz.phear.net>
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> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
> > Jim Mock wrote:
> >
> > > [root@oz:~]# whereis sendmail
> > > Can't exec "/usr/sbin/sysctl -n user.cs_path": No such file or
> > > directory at /usr/bin/whereis line 99sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > > /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz
> >
> > sysctl is in /sbin. Just edit the whereis script, the version in 3.0
> > doesn't seem to have this problem.
Hmm...
john@monster:~ {508} $ ll /sbin/sysctl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 57344 Nov 5 20:31 /sbin/sysctl*
john@monster:~ {509} $ ll /usr/sbin/sysctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 12 Nov 5 20:31 /usr/sbin/sysctl@ -> /sbin/sysctl
Looking at /usr/sys/usr.sbin/sysctl/Makefile makes me think
that a symbolic link has gone missing in your system.
BINDIR= /sbin
LINKS= ${BINDIR}/sysctl /usr/sbin/sysctl
I would suggest "ln -s -f /sbin/sysctl /usr/sbin/sysctl" instead
of editing the whereis script.
Cheers.
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