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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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This may be a dumb question to most of you, but

On 04-Oct-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
># cd /usr/src
># ln -s `/usr/games/fortune` /etc/malloc.conf
># make world

What does the middle line accomplish?  It only seems to give
  ln: /etc/malloc.conf: No such file or directory
which makes sense, since `/usr/games/fortune` will hardly ever
give you a file reference which actually exists.

R

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