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From: "N. R.R." <robalama@yahoo.com>
Subject: symbolic link trouble
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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
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