Re: Couldn't find command to check if file exists.

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (K. )]

"Robert J. Collins" <rco...@hw...> writes:

> I'm having a problem with tramp on one of my FreeBSD-Stable machines here
> are the messages i'm getting, anyone have any ideas?
> [...]
> Finding command to check if file exists
> Couldn't find command to check if file exists.

Wow.  This is really unusual.  I thought it was possible on FreeBSD.
Hm.

Can you try things manually?  See the function
tramp-find-file-exists-command.  It tries a couple of commands on `/'
(which we assume always exists) and on `/ this file does not exist '
(which we assume does not exist).

For the command frumple, do "frumple /; echo $?" to see what
happens.  Zero means yes, anything else means no.  And it's clear
that the command that works needs to print yes for `/' and no for the
other file.  (`ls -d' on NetBSD 1.4 always prints yes, that's why I'm
checking both.)

Also note that you have to do "exec /bin/sh" first.

Does Tramp run ksh in your case?

You can also see what's going on by (setq tramp-debug-buffer t), then
start Emacs and do your thing.  Then you should have a *debug
tramp/foo* buffer which contains a trail of things, and a *tramp/foo*
buffer which contains the last output.

kai
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