Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

what to hell. did I miss something? Did I link from the link to itself?

I am pretty sure this used to be caught.

I just ran:

ln -s /apache /usr/local/httpd

and it puts in a link /usr/local/httpd/apache.

I could swear this never used to happen and it would always warn you:

"directory exists already."


bash-2.04# ls -l /usr/local/httpd
total 5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root   7 Mar 31 20:00 apache -> /apache

Shouldn't the valid link command have been:

ln -s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/init.d

mk

> From: "Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 and VMware
> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:49:58
>
> ouch. now I am confused.
>
> I had:
>
> ls /etc/rc.d:
> README              dhcp        nfs                        rc1.d     single
> SuSEfirewall_final  dhcrelay    nfsserver                  rc2.d
> skeleton
> SuSEfirewall_init   dummy       nscd                       rc3.d     smb
> SuSEfirewall_setup  gpm         pcnfsd                     rc4.d     smbfs
> alsasound           halt        personal-firewall.final    rc5.d     sshd
> apache              halt.local  personal-firewall.initial  rc6.d     syslog
> apmd                idedma      portmap                    rcS.d     usbmgr
> at                  inetd       powerfail                  reboot
> wvdial.dod
> autofs              irda        proftpd                    route     xdm
> boot                kbd         quota                      routed    xfstt
> boot.d              kerneld     quotad                     rusersd   ypbind
> boot.local          lpd         random                     rwhod     zope
> boot.setup          mysql       rc                         sendmail
> cron                network     rc0.d                      serial
>
> ls -l /etc/init.d:
> README              dhcp        nfs                        rc1.d     single
> SuSEfirewall_final  dhcrelay    nfsserver                  rc2.d
> skeleton
> SuSEfirewall_init   dummy       nscd                       rc3.d     smb
> SuSEfirewall_setup  gpm         pcnfsd                     rc4.d     smbfs
> alsasound           halt        personal-firewall.final    rc5.d     sshd
> apache              halt.local  personal-firewall.initial  rc6.d     syslog
> apmd                idedma      portmap                    rcS.d     usbmgr
> at                  inetd       powerfail                  reboot
> wvdial.dod
> autofs              irda        proftpd                    route     xdm
> boot                kbd         quota                      routed    xfstt
> boot.d              kerneld     quotad                     rusersd   ypbind
> boot.local          lpd         random                     rwhod     zope
> boot.setup          mysql       rc                         sendmail
> cron                network     rc0.d                      serial
>
> 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?
>
> mk
>
> > From: "Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 and VMware
> > Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:40:44
> >
> > Shouldn't it be a symbolic link:
> >
> > ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/rc.d
> >
> > because hard links cannot link to directories?
> >
> > mk
> >
> > > From: Jeffrey Taylor <jeff.taylor@xxxxxxxx>
> > > To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 and VMware
> > > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:23:52 -0600
> > >
> > > I created a link "ln /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/rc.d" and answered
> > > /etc/rc.d.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >   Jeffrey
> > >
> > > Quoting Purple Shirt <purpleshirt@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > I was just gonna try VMware. I downloaded the compressed tar version
> > > 2.0.3
> > > > for Linux hosts.
> > > >
> > > > You can't get it to install under 7.1.
> > > >
> > > > The question of their perl install script:
> > > >
> > > > What is the directory under which the init scripts reside (it should
> > > contain
> > > > init.d/, and from rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)? /etc/init.d
> > > >
> > > > The path "/etc/init.d" is a directory which does not contain a init.d
> > > > directory.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > What is the directory under which the init scripts reside (it should
> > > contain
> > > > init.d/, and from rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)? /etc
> > > >
> > > > The path "/etc" is a directory which does not contain a rc0.d
> > > directory.
> > > >
> > > > What is the directory under which the init scripts reside (it should
> > > contain
> > > > init.d/, and from rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
> > > >
> > > > The answer always fails. =(
> > > >
> > > > mk
> > > >
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