Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 15:11:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: gljennjohn@gmail.com Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header Message-ID: <202106082211.158MBrbe010419@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20210608114741.3e944e67@ernst.home>
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> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 09:41:34 +0000 > Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:58:01PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where a > > > file on your runtime system comes from in the source world. There is a command for that which does or use to do a pretty decent job of it called whereis(1). > > > > A tangential problem I trip over is "what is on this SD card?" > > > > It generally takes me 5-10 minutes to remember: > > > > strings /<mount>/boot/kernel/kernel | tail > > > > AFIAK it's the only way to be sure; nothing in /<mount>/* seems > > to have that data. > > > > (Yes, in theory they all live in their own little box each of > > which is labeled but things happen ...) > > > > I use locate for this kind of search, e.g. > > locate netoptions > /etc/rc.d/netoptions > /usr/src/libexec/rc/rc.d/netoptions > > -- > Gary Jennejohn > > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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