From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 18 11:58:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29831 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from f68.hotmail.com (f68.hotmail.com [207.82.251.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29797 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robalama@hotmail.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by f68.hotmail.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00822 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:57:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robalama@hotmail.com) Message-Id: <199901181957.LAA00822@f68.hotmail.com> Received: from 38.30.41.45 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:57:58 PST X-Originating-IP: [38.30.41.45] From: "N. R.R." To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: symbolic link trouble Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:57:58 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I was trying to create a symbolic link to /var by following this technique: #mkdir /usr/var #cd /var #tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) #rm -rf /var However, this is where it gets weird. It says: rm: /var: Device Busy #ln -s /usr/var /var even after I rebooted I still couldnt remove the /var directory. And, of course, many things wouldnt start at bootup (cron stuff, sendmail stuff, etc., due to not finding files in the /var directory) It would give me some errors along the lines of: Cannot find shared library: libXman.o.6.lib (or something like that) It worked fine when I did the same thing for the /tmp directory. Can anyone shed any light on this situation? Thanks. Neill ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message