On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Ernst du Toit wrote:

> Hmm, 1.3-BETA is making me feel like a newbie - nothing like computers
> to keep one humble, I guess.
> 
> Trying to run config(1) to build a kernel I get:
> 
> /dev/null:1: cannot open ../../../../conf/files for reading: No such
> file or directory
> 
> What's up? My box is kinda flacky right now, so the sys tarball (current
> from end DEC about) could have gotten warped while unpacking, but I
> unpacked several times and tried config(1) against GENERIC and friends
> with the same result.

You are in sys/arch/i386/conf when you run config, aren't you? It will
then make ../compile/KERNEL_NAME, and from there try to access
../../../../conf/files, which is sys/conf/files.

Take care,

Bill