From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 14:28:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C19D152D8 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:28:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA32558; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:27:01 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: ROBERT BECKETT , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft link /var to /usr/var In-Reply-To: <15307.941615061@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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