Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:57:42 -0800 (PST) From: "N. R.R." <robalama@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: symbolic link trouble Message-ID: <19990118195742.22691.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com>
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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 _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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