On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:16:46 +0100
Erik Jakobsen
On Monday 26 November 2001 21:55, Geoff wrote:
So Erik, can you give us an example of where you have seen this please?
Sure I can Geoff.
Its from the information from Vokler Kuhlmann for installing VMware Express on a system running 7.3:
3) Provide a missing symlink:
ln -s ../../etc/init.d/vmware /usr/sbin/rcvmware
This lets you start the vmware networking with rcvmware start/stop, like any other service.
http://volker.orcon.net.nz/linux/vmware/vmware2.0.4-SuSE7.3.txt
Hello Erik, Ahhh .. now I understand better ... unfortunately I also understand worse. I think that all of us who replied were assuming that the symlink was being made from ../ to ../etc. The full text you quote shows, of course, that this is not the case, and I can understand your question. Personally, I cannot see any need to use the form you quote and nor can I see any advantage that might flow from using it provided that vmware is in /etc/init.d. I do not use SuSE 7.3 and my vmware executable is not in that directory, so I cannot experiment. If I saw that kind of example in a text book I would assume that the ".../ ../" had been included to show that there might be direcories above /etc that might need to be taken into account, but that does not seem to be the explanation here. I am not an expert, however, and I would be very interested to know if any of the shell gurus on the list can explain why the command is expressed as it is. Sorry I can't help more. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com