From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 05:30:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8275E16A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B81F43F3F for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:30:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B691FF91D; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:30:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 474301FF90A; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:30:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id 5222F153E8; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE541538C; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: David Malone In-Reply-To: <20031019092538.GA95269@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: References: <20031019092538.GA95269@walton.maths.tcd.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:30:10 -0000 On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, David Malone wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:52:59AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? > > All of the programs you list are actually hardlinks to one another. *aarrrggg* should have had another look at it this morning after some minutes of sleep. > If you run "ls -li" on them, you will see that they have the same > inode number, and are consequently the same file. yes. of course. I should recheck the way I had copied them into my image. Must have used cp -p this night instead of tar -cpf - | tar -xpf - -C ... or s.th. like this. That's most likely the problem I hadn't seen a link count > 1 because I didn't look at the original installation: noc:~/install-20031018/usr/bin# ls -i ex nex nvi nview vi view 47625 ex 47625 nex 47625 nvi 47625 nview 47625 vi 47625 view but noc:/mnt/usr/bin# ls -i ex nex nvi nview vi view 346 ex 246 nex 240 nvi 239 nview 114 vi 113 view many thanks for all the answers. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/ tech support excuse #226: Fatal error right in front of screen