Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-14 Thread Shelby Cain
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 22:13 +0200, Mel wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 16:42:57 Shelby Cain wrote: Why does factory settings not include scanning the built-in system library path /usr/lib? From the man page, it would seem that if I truly wanted to remove all runtime information I'd want

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-11 Thread Shelby Cain
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 00:35 +0200, Mel wrote: It translates to be verbose about restoring factory settings, because without arguments it will restore the built-in set. Why does factory settings not include scanning the built-in system library path /usr/lib? From the man page, it would seem

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-11 Thread Mel
On Friday 11 April 2008 16:42:57 Shelby Cain wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 00:35 +0200, Mel wrote: It translates to be verbose about restoring factory settings, because without arguments it will restore the built-in set. Why does factory settings not include scanning the built-in system

Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Shelby Cain
Greetings list. I'm a new user to FreeBSD and I just managed to introduce myself to ldconfig's default behavior. I'm currently locked out of my remote server since bash isn't statically compiled and will have to get physical access to correct my blunder. :( As a new user to FreeBSD, ldconfig's

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Shelby Cain wrote: Greetings list. I'm a new user to FreeBSD and I just managed to introduce myself to ldconfig's default behavior. I'm currently locked out of my remote server since bash isn't statically compiled and will have to get physical access

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Shelby Cain
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 22:14 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: It is unwise to use a port as a root shell. What if /usr or /usr/local is on a separate partition which isn't mounted in single user mode? This is just a toy system I set up to learn about FreeBSD and zfs so I didn't bother using

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Capriolo
I just wrote to the list about the SAME thing. I totally agree. This is like the saying 'rm' command without arguments will delete every file on your computer. I did the same thing. I wish it was a virtual system I did it to as well :) On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Shelby Cain [EMAIL

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Mel
On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:50:31 Edward Capriolo wrote: I just wrote to the list about the SAME thing. I totally agree. This is like the saying 'rm' command without arguments will delete every file on your computer. I did the same thing. I wish it was a virtual system I did it to as well :)

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Shelby Cain
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:09 +0200, Mel wrote: First of all, running ldconfig without arguments does nothing bad. Running ldconfig without flags and with arguments does. Secondly, what is the command: ldconfig /usr/lib supposed to do, according to newbie friendly logic? Because it

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Capriolo
The command ldconfig -v Wipes your hints without saying a thing about it. I would not call that verbose. If you want to know what I think it should output I suggest. ldconfig -v Number of paths specified 0 News Hints Size: 0 On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Shelby Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Mel
On Thursday 10 April 2008 23:44:39 Shelby Cain wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:09 +0200, Mel wrote: First of all, running ldconfig without arguments does nothing bad. Running ldconfig without flags and with arguments does. Secondly, what is the command: ldconfig /usr/lib supposed to

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:30 PM 4/10/2008, Shelby Cain wrote: Greetings list. I'm a new user to FreeBSD and I just managed to introduce myself to ldconfig's default behavior. I'm currently locked out of my remote server since bash isn't statically compiled and will have to get physical access to correct my