Hello Erik,
Hello Geoff.
Ahhh .. now I understand better ... unfortunately I also understand worse.
Very good Geoff, but maybe I gave too little informations :-)
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.
Ok good. Now I have tested the symbolic link, test:/ # ln -s ../ ../etc/init.d/vmware /usr/sbin/rcvmware ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory test:/ #
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.
The reason should be a missing link given problems when running vmware-config.pl.
Sorry I can't help more.
Ok fine. You gave it a nice try. Have a nice day.
Regards,
Geoff
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