Absolute symlinks hell!!
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Wed Nov 17 07:04:46 UTC 2004
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:44:35 +0000, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > Does the installer give an example of an absolute link that it's
> > complaining about?
>
> Hmmm, so much for that theory. It actually complains about:
>
> [root at opal root]# ls -l /usr/tmp
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 21 20:22 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
> [root at opal root]# ls -al /var/tmp
> total 2434
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 16 18:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Jun 6 17:31 ..
>
> which looks quite kosher to me. Any ideas what's throwing it?
Apart from wrong permissions, what do you get if you make /usr/tmp a
relative link to ../var/tmp?
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