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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 17), samy lancher said:
> thanks for the quick response. 
> 
> Is this a soft link?, what happens to the existing data in /var/db. I
> do not want to loose that data.

I did this:

$ cd /var/db
$ mv pkg /usr/var_db_pkg
$ ln -s ../../usr/var_db_pkg pkg

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com