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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"