/usr/local missing

On my macbook, the folder /local doesn't seem to be there. Yesterday I did a fresh install of OS X, and now /usr/local is not there. I need it to create part of a toolchain for a project, so anyone know where it went, or if I could just create a directory called local?

Hi Kabren,
   I think the installer used to create such empty directories but maybe it doesn't now. Since they are empty, you can make them yourself. However, I would think that most of the installers that use that install root by default will create the directories for you. If you have an app that doesn't or just want to create the directories yourself, you could do it with a command like:
sudo mkdir /usr/local /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc /usr/local/include /usr/local/info /usr/local/lib /usr/local/man /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/local/share/man
Gary
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$PATH missing '/usr/local/bin' in /etc/login.defs and /etc/profile.
I only noticed, being somewhat a noob, after compiling the NEW Dillo 0.7.3 and finding that it places its' executable in /usr/local/bin (!). This, not being in my $PATH by default.
Please consider adding this line to future ARCH 0.6 or beyond for WORKSTATION users:
# /etc/profile
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin"
Thanx.

Mt.Tam-Luxer wrote:I only noticed, being somewhat a noob, after compiling the NEW Dillo 0.7.3
A very wise decision to use this great browser :-) ... and I'm even serious about that.
Mt.Tam-Luxer wrote:and finding that it places its' executable in /usr/local/bin (!). This, not being in my $PATH by default.
For some reason it is in my /etc/profile ... but I don't remember if I put it there or not.
Firstly, (and as already mentioned more or less) I can see arguments why AL does not include /usr/local/bin by default (mainly because there is nothing there when only installing AL packages).
But OTOH, this is the beauty of AL : you can (and are even supposed to) configure your system as you like by editing the files in /etc. I guess that's why I don't remember, because the first thing I would do if need be is editing /etc/profile ;-) ...
Oh, but something (very general !) to consider : if you want to keep your system "Unix-style", don't put every posible PATH in /etc/profile, but put it in ~/.profile (or whatever shell you are using). If you are the only user, it does not really matter. But in a "true multi-user Unix system" you should not have /funky/path/bin in /etc/ ... not that /usr/local is exotic ....this is more of a general note.
sarah31 wrote:but imho if there is a PKGBUILD for a desired app (such as dillo)
yes, the PKGBUILD for dillo works fine, however, last week they released the latest version 0.7.3 which Mt.Tam-Luxer tried to install ( ... hint ... hint ... package maintainers ... :-) ... ). It was not quite clear from your post if yo wanted him to modify the PKGBUILD script or to just use it.
Oh, and besides changing pkgver, the source should now point to http://www.dillo.org/download/dillo-0.7.3.tar.bz2

Simple script in /usr/local/bin just won't start - SOLVED

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Here's the script itself (I really don't think there's something wrong with it, since if I type it in the shell it works fine):
#!/bin/zsh/
#start psi, never stop
while true;
do psi;
done
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─$ print $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/opt/mozilla/bin:/opt/qt/bin
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total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Dec 15 03:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 240 Dec 10 18:55 ../
-rwxrwxr-x 1 kamagurka users 60 Dec 15 03:51 psi.start*
And here's what happens when I try to execute it:
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zsh: command not found: psi.start
So, I'm either missing something incredibly obvious, or something freaky's going on here. I hope it's the former.
EDIT: I had no idea where to put this, so I put it into Desktop Env since I'm trying to start a graphical app, but feel free to move it.
EDIT: Yea, I was being a little dense.

smoon wrote:Not sure if that's the problem, but try removing the trailing / (slash) from your script's shebang.
See, something really obvious. Stupid, even. You can see, I don't do a lot of scripting.

Posix_spawn("/usr/local/sbin/dnsupdate", ...): No such file or directory

Hello,
This errors are repeting again and again :
27/07/13 15:52:57
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[36847]) posix_spawn("/usr/local/sbin/dnsupdate", ...): No such file or directory
27/07/13 15:52:57
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[36847]) Exited with exit code: 1
27/07/13 15:52:57
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
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com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[36917]) posix_spawn("/usr/local/sbin/dnsupdate", ...): No such file or directory
27/07/13 15:53:07
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[36917]) Exited with exit code: 1
27/07/13 15:53:07
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
27/07/13 15:53:17
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[36964]) posix_spawn("/usr/local/sbin/dnsupdate", ...): No such file or directory
27/07/13 15:53:17
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[36964]) Exited with exit code: 1
27/07/13 15:53:17
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
27/07/13 15:53:27
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[37034]) posix_spawn("/usr/local/sbin/dnsupdate", ...): No such file or directory
27/07/13 15:53:27
com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon[37034]) Exited with exit code: 1
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com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.dnsupdate.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Cordialy!

The /user/local directory is site-specific and usually locally-installed stuff; software and tools and libraries that have been installed into the Unix environment. That directory doesn't usually have any OS X files in it, unless somebody copied something there.
In this case, some software expects a DNS update tool to exist in the /usr/local directory, and it's not there or not there anymore, and some other piece(s) are trying to start the operation via launchd, and failing.
The source of the tool looks to be www.dnsupdate.org, though that site is offline right now.
Do you want or need help putting the dnsupdate stuff back, or possibly removing the launchd widget that's trying to activate the (missing) tool?

Unable to find /usr/local/jre/bin/jre

Many people have reported this problem but I've yet to see an answer other than 'make sure you hav eth right version'.
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Did you
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How to inherit /usr and make /usr/local read/write

Is there some way where I can make "/usr" a inherit-pkg-dir, and yet make "/usr/local" a read/write directory. I notice a lot of things I compile want to use "/usr/local" to write to, yet I don't want to remove the inherit for /usr, since a lot of packages go into that directory I would like inherited.
One work around I tried was to make a symbolic link in the global from "/usr/local" to /local" on the root, and then create a "/local" directory in the non-global zone. This still caused problems.
So is there any other work arounds or do I have to remove the inherit for "/usr" to make "/usr/local" writeable?

One work around I tried was to make a symbolic link
nk in the global from "/usr/local" to /local" on the
root, and then create a "/local" directory in the
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So far, we have half a dozen test zones created like this and haven't seen any problems. What kind of issues are you seeing when installing like this? (crossing fingers we haven't missed a Fatal Flaw :-))
-A

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If it makes any difference, I'm specifically trying to do File Open in Firefox. This brings up the Finder dialog box that I am unable to point to the file I want.
My workaround is to create a softlink to the file in my home directory. But this is a stupid hack. If the file is on my machine, Finder should be able to find it. That's why they call it Finder.
Thanks for your help.
Mac Mini Duo 1.66 GHz, 2 GB (10.4.6); MacBook (10.4.8)

For opening things from either Finder or an application you might consider this:
1. Do as biovizier suggests to go to the hidden parent folder
2. With /usr open in Finder hold down both the Option and Command keys and click and hold on the proxy icon at the top of folder's toolbar and drag to your Desktop
3. This will create an alias to the invisible folder which is visible in the Finder and application open and save dialog boxes
I made a folder called hidden and put aliases to bin, private, sbin and usr in it. I can easily get to the contents of all of them now.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Can not compile php with "-with-oracle=/usr/local/oracle"

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Permission denied: fopen('/usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf'

When installing phone software (CounterPath-Bria3) i get an error message in the system: Permission denied: fopen('/usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf'..) CounterPath is arguing, they use their own SSL library. Does anybody have an idea, how to fix this?

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debug3: no such identity: /Users/zbeckman/.ssh/id_rsa
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How to put g95 in usr/local/bin?

Hi all,
I am trying to compile a program called elmerice. When I type the "make compile" command, I get the following message:
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If I go into Time Machine mode and type say "/usr/local" in the Time Machine search bar I get nothing although I can open a terminal application and cd to /usr/local and see bin, lib, include, etc.
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defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1
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Last edited by adamlau (2009-03-29 21:43:48)

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I have installed the package make-3.8 for solaris 9 on my machine with sun os 5.9. But still I can not see 'make' in /usr/local/bin .
Does anyone have an idea why?
I installed the same as root using the command:
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Regards
Manmeet

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/M.

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