Registry corrupt?

[Mel]

On Monday 26 January 2009 03:27:43 Jack L. Stone wrote:
> At 04:27 PM 1.25.2009 -0900, you wrote:
> >On Saturday 24 January 2009 04:06:39 Jack L. Stone wrote:
> >> At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote:
> >> >On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone
> >>
> >> BUT, it is executable and using the exact path to the program still
> >> gives this error:
> >> /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not found
> >
> >file /usr/bin/perl will give you the answer.
> >
> >--
> >Mel
>
> Yes, know it's perl and here's how I really use fastest_cvsup:
> # /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h `(fastest_cvsup -q -c us )` \
> # /root/kernels/7.0.src-supfile
>
> The above finds the fastest fbsd source and cvsup's from it. But, was
> getting "fastest_cvsup not found"

fastest_cvsup did not find perl. Your /usr/bin/perl is a *broken* symlink to a 
perl version that does not exist anymore, which file /usr/bin/perl would show 
you if you actually did run that command.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.