From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 20:38:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B0C37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:38:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [213.235.167.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794E043FFD for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AD444F; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:38:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 551332FDAB2; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:38:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:38:32 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Adam Message-ID: <20030630033832.GL11229@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Adam , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030629161557.GA92368@bellsouth.net> <1056904119.65856.34.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1056904119.65856.34.camel@jake> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting Symlink X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 03:38:34 -0000 # 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. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html