From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 12:48:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.hawaii.rr.com (smtp3.hawaii.rr.com [204.210.97.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DAC1528D for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from art@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from taz - 24.31.76.79 by smtp3.hawaii.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1774.114.11); Wed, 8 Sep 1999 09:48:09 -1000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990908094749.008ca100@clients1.hawaii.rr.com> X-Sender: art@clients1.hawaii.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:47:49 -1000 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" Subject: whereis(1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Whereis is driving me nuts, it thinks I have a directory however the directory does not exist. For example: root@pilikia# whereis myfile Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man! myfile: I do not have this directory. root@pilikia# ls -l /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man ls: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man: No such file or directory my version of perl is 5.00503 root@pilikia# ls -l /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man total 3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3072 Jul 4 11:26 man3 I tried searching my entire filesystem for a possible symlink to a nonexistant file left behind from the previous perl version find / -type l -ls | grep '5.00502' however nothing was found. I also tried running the update script /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate manually, it ran fine however the problem still exists. How can I rid myself of this bogus reference? -- __ / ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. /--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, / (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" Arthur W. Neilson III, KH7PZ Bank of Hawaii Tech Support art@hawaii.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message