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From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>
To: "Jim Mock" <jim@phrantic.phear.net>,
        "Ben Smithurst" <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: whereis in 2.2.8-RELEASE
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:01:20 +1100
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> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 
> > Jim Mock wrote:
> > 
> > > [root@oz:~]# whereis sendmail
> > > Can't exec "/usr/sbin/sysctl -n user.cs_path": No such file or
> > > directory at /usr/bin/whereis line 99sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > > /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz
> > 
> > sysctl is in /sbin. Just edit the whereis script, the version in 3.0
> > doesn't seem to have this problem.

Hmm...

john@monster:~ {508} $ ll /sbin/sysctl
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  57344 Nov  5 20:31 /sbin/sysctl*
john@monster:~ {509} $ ll /usr/sbin/sysctl
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  bin  12 Nov  5 20:31 /usr/sbin/sysctl@ -> /sbin/sysctl

Looking at /usr/sys/usr.sbin/sysctl/Makefile makes me think
that a symbolic link has gone missing in your system.

BINDIR= /sbin
LINKS=  ${BINDIR}/sysctl /usr/sbin/sysctl

I would suggest "ln -s -f /sbin/sysctl /usr/sbin/sysctl" instead
of editing the whereis script.

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