Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roman Morokutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Carlson schrieb: wget comes with Solaris in /usr/bin. I found it in /usr/sfw/bin. Right; Solaris doesn't ship with /usr/local. As Jörg Schilling said, this directory has been obsolated by Solaris. It has been obsoleted with

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-12 Thread Roman Morokutti
It has been obsoleted with SunOS-4.0. The Solaris we use is SunOS-5.x. Sorry, for my incorrect quote. Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-12 Thread Roman Morokutti
James Carlson schrieb: If you read filesystem(5), you'll see that it says that it's not part of SVR4, and it recommends that if you need to have it (because some add-on, typically free software) you should use a symlink to /opt/local and create a directory there. (Personally, I use a zfs mount

[osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Roman Morokutti
Hi, I just compiled and installed the wget program. After installation I tried to type wget, but nothing happened. So I saw that it has been installed into /usr/local. Further investigation has shown that wget was the only tool which has been installed into /usr/local (yet). So my question is

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Roman Morokutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just compiled and installed the wget program. After installation I tried to type wget, but nothing happened. So I saw that it has been installed into /usr/local. Further investigation has shown that wget

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wget should already be on a Solaris 10 system: /usr/sfw/bin/wget /usr/local or /opt/local is where programs you compile and install yourself should go. In favor of /opt/vendor/..., /usr/local has been declared obsolete 20 years ago on SunOS and many

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Harry Lu
Roman Morokutti : Hi, I just compiled and installed the wget program. After installation I tried to type wget, but nothing happened. So I saw that it has been installed into /usr/local. when configuring, you should be able to set the prefix to /usr instead of the default /usr/local. You

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Harry Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roman Morokutti : Hi, I just compiled and installed the wget program. After installation I tried to type wget, but nothing happened. So I saw that it has been installed into /usr/local. when configuring, you

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread James Carlson
Roman Morokutti writes: I just compiled and installed the wget program. After installation I tried to type wget, but nothing happened. So I saw that it has been installed into /usr/local. wget comes with Solaris in /usr/bin. Further investigation has shown that wget was the only tool which

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Roman Morokutti
Joerg Schilling schrieb: In favor of /opt/vendor/..., /usr/local has been declared obsolete 20 years ago on SunOS and many other UNIX like OS. Interesting to know. Thank you for this info. But should I then put /opt/schily/bin and /opt/schily/man into the PATH and MANPATH respectively? Or

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Roman Morokutti
James Carlson schrieb: wget comes with Solaris in /usr/bin. I found it in /usr/sfw/bin. Right; Solaris doesn't ship with /usr/local. As Jörg Schilling said, this directory has been obsolated by Solaris. You shouldn't be modifying anything under the standard /usr directories. See

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread James Carlson
Roman Morokutti writes: James Carlson schrieb: wget comes with Solaris in /usr/bin. I found it in /usr/sfw/bin. You're right. I'd thought it'd been moved already, and it hasn't. Right; Solaris doesn't ship with /usr/local. As Jörg Schilling said, this directory has been