Tim, Mark, Question -- if/when I do find head on the OS X CD, where should I put it? I can't put it back in /usr/bin because it will then overwrite HEAD that is present there now, no?
corollary -- why is head so important? isn't it just the opposite of tail? I use tail once in a while, but unless the system uses head, what do I suffer if its not there? Tia, pk/ On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 04:08 AM, Tim Rayner wrote: > On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 11:07 am, Mark Setzer wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I think I was installing libwww from CPAN and mindlessly said yes to a >> couple of optional installs. Seems it overwrote my /usr/bin/head with >> a perl module to interpret http HEAD calls. >> >> Not fun! So I've had a hell of a time looking for a source install, a >> package, something, somewhere that had the head program, since a lot >> of install scripts (namely, mod_perl) rely on it to do business. >> >> Anyone know how I can fix this without hosing my entire freakin >> system? I' >> ve tried reinstalling the BSD Subsystem package from my OSX CD, no >> dice there. Suggestions, please? >> >> Thanks, >> Mark > > I actually just copied the head binary straight from the MacOSX install > CD (i.e. from the system that you boot from on that CD, not the > installer files). Seems to work fine. Perhaps the installer refuses to > overwrite /usr/ > bin/head if it already exists? > > Tim >
