Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:38:32 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting Symlink Message-ID: <20030630033832.GL11229@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <1056904119.65856.34.camel@jake> References: <20030629161557.GA92368@bellsouth.net> <1056904119.65856.34.camel@jake>
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# blueeskimo@gmx.net / 2003-06-29 12:28:39 -0400:
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 12:15, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
> > Hello everyone. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and I am trying to delete a symlink from one file to another
> >
> > (/usr/local/www/data to data-dist and /usr/local/www/cgi-bin to cgi-bin-dist)
> >
> > I was told when I use portupgrade it will delete my files If I don't delete the symlinks so could
> > someone help me out here
>
> I've never heard of it DELETING files, but I have heard of it changing
> permissions, and occasionally failing (eg, if there files/folders with
> spaces in the name).
s/delete/rewrite/
I've had this happen with the Postfix port smashing my config, and
remember complaints here about Apache doing similar thing to
people's websites.
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