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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:39:39
Message-Id: 200707291330.58205.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts by David Relson
1 On 29 July 2007, David Relson wrote:
2 > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:13:08 -0500
3 > Greg Lindstrom wrote:
4 >
5 > ..[snip]...
6 >
7 > > I'm not sure what you are asking here.
8 > >
9 > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/env
10 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 18 2006 /usr/bin/env -> /bin/env
11 > >
12 > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/python
13 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 18 2006 /usr/bin/python -> python2.4
14 >
15 > This looks suspicious to me. /usr/bin/python is a symlink to
16 > python2.4.
17 >
18 > Where is python2.4? Is it on your path?
19
20 Nothing suspicious here. /usr/bin/python is a symlink to /usr/bin/puthon2.4 -
21 at least on a gentoo system. And while python2.4 *is* in the path
22 (because /usr/bin is), it doesn't really matter as long as /usr/bin/python
23 is.
24
25 Uwe
26
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28 Jethro Tull: Maybe, I am not done yet!
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