Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:30:17 +1100 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: R Joseph Wright <joseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi weirdness Message-ID: <20000218173017.D68962@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002171828420.768-100000@mammalia.sea>; from joseph@nwlink.com on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:32:27PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002171828420.768-100000@mammalia.sea>
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> I'm having trouble with vi. In fact I'm having a lot of trouble. I just > tried to move /var to /usr/var and create a link to /var. Instead of > moving /var to /usr/var, it copied all of /var except /var/run/log. So, I > didn't create the link or anything. /var is still intact where it > was. But now when I try to use vi, it says "too many levels of symbolic > links" and it won't let me edit files. > You're probably better off to do this with tar, a la: mkdir /usr/var cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf -) cd .. mv /var /var.old ln -s /usr/var /var chmod 1777 /var/tmp And a reboot after this is also a good idea. Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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