From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 00:08:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC4A16A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:08:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-02.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02A0043D48 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:08:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) Received: (qmail 30097 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2005 00:08:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warren.shinji.nq.nu) (203.217.86.9) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 2 Mar 2005 00:08:04 -0000 From: Warren To: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:06:42 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200503010853.24129.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <44r7iz2z83.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44r7iz2z83.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503021006.43448.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make, etc, whereis, commands broken X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:08:07 -0000 > That depends on what you did. If they're completely gone, you'll need > to get them back; backups are the traditional way of fixing this. In > the worst case, a complete base system reinstall (possibly updating > from source, if you have enough of your system left to do that) will > fix it up. /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/make/make and all the other commands that dont work exist like the make command, but when something like a make install or portupgrade etc is issued it fails ... so i've obviously stuffed the main commands. Most other things work its mainly the make, whereis, vi, clear, fetch, ftp and other things that rely on make .... If i re-do the base system will that then cause the various ports i have running to need re-configuring.. e.g. dhcp, named httpd etc This sort of thing is really beyong my present knowledge lvl of BSD at present, so exscuse the dumb questions. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu