Ok thanks to a drunken SuSE and Jeff. had to: (remove odd never-ending link) rm /etc/rc.d (remove link into nomansland) rm /etc/init.d/init.d (reset old /etc/rc.d link) ln -s /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d (move to directory) cd /etc/init.d (set link to itself) ln -s . init.d Linux Standard Base where are you? =) I don't know if it is just me but I hate to have a directory with contents and another link to it right next to it. mk
From: Jeffrey Taylor
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 and VMware Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:07:55 -0600 I'm sorry. The problem isn't fatal. As usual I reversed the operands of ln. The correct command is:
ln -s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/init.d
or better yet
ln -s /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d/init.d
(/etc/rc.d is a symlink to /etc/init.d) You may have to delete /etc/rc.d first.
Jeffrey
Quoting Purple Shirt
: [snip] Then I ran
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/rc.d
and all the contents (above in /etc/rc.d) disappeared and there was only one link rc.d -> init.d left.
Did I junk something important?
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I expect this is a backwards semi-compatibilty fix. /sbin/init.d/ and
/etc/rc.d used to point to the same directory. /etc/init.d is
probably the LSB standard.
Quoting Purple Shirt
Linux Standard Base where are you? =) I don't know if it is just me but I hate to have a directory with contents and another link to it right next to it.
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
Guys, when I reported my success with VMware 2.0.3 on SuSE 7.1 I forgot to mention that I followed the article from SuSE Support database http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/pohletz_vmware_initscript.html (VMware on SuSE Linux 7.1: The Position of Initialskripts has changed) The article is dated Feb. 14, 2001. The recommended solution is exactly what mk did: cd /etc/init.d ln -s . init.d -Kastus On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:24:53AM +0000, Purple Shirt wrote:
Ok thanks to a drunken SuSE and Jeff.
had to:
(remove odd never-ending link) rm /etc/rc.d (remove link into nomansland) rm /etc/init.d/init.d (reset old /etc/rc.d link) ln -s /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d (move to directory) cd /etc/init.d (set link to itself) ln -s . init.d
Linux Standard Base where are you? =) I don't know if it is just me but I hate to have a directory with contents and another link to it right next to it.
mk
From: Jeffrey Taylor
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 and VMware Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:07:55 -0600 I'm sorry. The problem isn't fatal. As usual I reversed the operands of ln. The correct command is:
ln -s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/init.d
or better yet
ln -s /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d/init.d
(/etc/rc.d is a symlink to /etc/init.d) You may have to delete /etc/rc.d first.
Jeffrey
Quoting Purple Shirt
: [snip] Then I ran
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/rc.d
and all the contents (above in /etc/rc.d) disappeared and there was only one link rc.d -> init.d left.
Did I junk something important?
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
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Jeffrey Taylor
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