Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:27:01 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: ROBERT BECKETT <RBECKETT@edlerinc.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft link /var to /usr/var Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911031426120.344-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <15307.941615061@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 17:12:11 PST, ROBERT BECKETT wrote: > > > I am completely new to unix and have come up against a problem. On p. 87 of > > Lahey's user manual that came with my ver. 3.2 of FreeBSD, he recommends > > creating a directory /usr/var and soft-linking it to the original file, > > /var. > > That means doing this: > > mv /var /usr > ln -s /usr/var /var That will not work unless you rm -rf /var/run/log first =) > You probably did this: > > ln -s /usr/var /var > > Since /var already existed, the ln command created a symlink to /usr/var > in the existing /var directory. Remove the /var/var symlink and use the > instructions listed above. :-) Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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