From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 26 06:24:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA21503 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 06:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viking.easynet.fr (root@viking.easynet.fr [195.114.64.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA21493 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 06:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viking (hal@viking.easynet.fr [195.114.64.6]) by viking.easynet.fr (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08671 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:23:22 +0200 Message-ID: <33B26D4A.3E601940@easynet.fr> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:23:22 +0200 From: Michael Hallgren Organization: Easynet France X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Too many symbolic links, Symbolic link loop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm fighting with a FreeBSD machine. Roughly what I'm up to: I clean installed FreeBSD, with the DES option. The goal is to set up an Apache on the machine. Then I performed a rdist from a BSDI machine, importing stuff like password file, user directories, user quotas, shells. The Apache works just fine, but when I try to run Perl I get stuck with the error message: "Too many symbolic links" (under bash), "Symbolic link loop" (under sh). I've scanned through my symbolic links w/o finding something striking. Basically, the links I have are "shortcuts to shells", some links to user logs... Anyone seen this kind of problem? Anyone solved it? How? Cheers Michael -- Michael Hallgren, Easynet France Write : http://www.loria.fr/tex Play : http://www.perl.com/perl