From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 0:40:40 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 DE6F115586 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 00:40:38 -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 AAA48298; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 00:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 00:38:01 -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: <47491.941703734@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 Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > That will not work unless you rm -rf /var/run/log first =) > > Can you explain why not? Because the /var/run/log file has certain permissions set. Try to mv /var/run/log to another location and see what happens. I know it doesn't work on all my newly installed systems. 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