On Wed, 2021-06-09 at 18:54 +1000, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-current wrote: > On 2021-Jun-08 17:13:45 -0600, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 15:11 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > There is a command for that which does or use to do a pretty > > > decent job of it called whereis(1). > > Thanks. That looks useful. > > > revolution > whereis ntp.conf > > ntp.conf: > > revolution > whereis netif > > netif: > > revolution > whereis services > > services: > > > > So how does that help me locate the origin of these files in the > > source > > tree? > > It works for me™: > server% whereis ntp.conf > ntp.conf: /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/ntp.conf > server% whereis netif > netif: /usr/src/libexec/rc/rc.d/netif > server% whereis services > services: /usr/src/contrib/unbound/services > > Is your source tree somewhere other than /usr/src? >
My /usr/src is a symlink to the actual source tree on a different filesystem (but it is the source tree the running system was built from). It seems odd that that would make whereis(1) not work. -- Ian
