On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 15:11 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 09:41:34 +0000 > > Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:58:01PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where > > > > a > > > > file on your runtime system comes from in the source world. > > There is a command for that which does or use to do a pretty > decent job of it called whereis(1). >
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? -- Ian > > > > > > A tangential problem I trip over is "what is on this SD card?" > > > > > > It generally takes me 5-10 minutes to remember: > > > > > > strings /<mount>/boot/kernel/kernel | tail > > > > > > AFIAK it's the only way to be sure; nothing in /<mount>/* seems > > > to have that data. > > > > > > (Yes, in theory they all live in their own little box each of > > > which is labeled but things happen ...) > > > > > > > I use locate for this kind of search, e.g. > > > > locate netoptions > > /etc/rc.d/netoptions > > /usr/src/libexec/rc/rc.d/netoptions > > > > -- > > Gary Jennejohn > > > > > >