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Am 27.09.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Jeffrey Goldberg:
On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Michel Salim wrote:
Wonder if at some point /usr/local got erased, and then some script
did a 'touch /usr/local' on your system, recreating it as a file.
He said it
Martin Krischik wrote:
He said it was 13MB. So my guess is that some script did a
cp foo /usr/local
expected that /usr/local already existed as a directory.
This is why the --target-directory was invented (at least for gnu's
cp). Very helpful for scripts. Also very helpful is setopt
On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Michel Salim wrote:
Wonder if at some point /usr/local got erased, and then some script
did a 'touch /usr/local' on your system, recreating it as a file.
He said it was 13MB. So my guess is that some script did a
cp foo /usr/local
expected that /usr/local
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Otto Roberson Bertsch
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Thanks to Ryan for his very rapid and effective response!
The culprit was that /usr/local/ was not a directory but instead a file.
That's very strange, but a sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local-off got me going
again.
