From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 06:37:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12565 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 06:37:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12553 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 06:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id WAA16506; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:35:35 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199811121435.WAA16506@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Nick Hibma cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: Upgrade from 2.2-STABLE to -CURRENT In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:08:41 +0100." Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:35:35 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Hibma wrote: > > cp strip maybe_stripped > > strip maybe_stripped > > *** Error code 1 > > Find the occurrence in the tree and add a '-' in front of the strip. It > is unnecessary and a bug in the code, found it once, but forgot to post > a bug report. > > Nick This usually turns out to have been caused by somebody tempting fate by putting "." at the beginning of their $PATH.. That's rather deadly to say the least.. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message