From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 1 19:17:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27398 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 19:17:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oz.phear.net (slwag1p30.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27386 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 19:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by oz.phear.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA01655; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:16:44 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:16:41 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: John Saunders cc: Ben Smithurst , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: whereis in 2.2.8-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <002501be1da0$0949ffd0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> 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, 2 Dec 1998, John Saunders wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > [snip] > > > sysctl is in /sbin. Just edit the whereis script, the version in 3.0 > > > doesn't seem to have this problem. > [snip] > I would suggest "ln -s -f /sbin/sysctl /usr/sbin/sysctl" instead > of editing the whereis script. > Just tried that too and it worked. I changed the whereis script back to /usr/sbin/sysctl and it's working again after making the symlink. Both seem to have worked without breaking anything else :-) Thanks for the help guys. Jim : Jim Mock | [jim@phrantic.phear.net] : : Phear Networks | web: http://www.phear.net/ : : A franchise of Triax, Inc. | ----------------------------- : : Web Site Design & Hosting | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message