From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 23:40:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25AC37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A9D43E75 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (4b60aed938c374ee16c733e50ce98f0c@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g986fgho083530; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g986fg4V083529; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:41:42 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Should I worry about having many X11 symlinks Message-ID: <20021008064142.GL81796@vectors.cx> References: <20021007211527.U4120-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021007211527.U4120-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> (10.07.2002 @ 2122 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.4K: << > # find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ -type l | xargs ls -al | grep -v \/doc\/html\/ don't need to escape those forward slashes, fwiw. > `pkg_add -r wrapper` failed the first try because of an error about > /etc/X11/xserver/ServerPolicy or something like that. i hope that wasn't a request for help on that... > A pkg_deinstall then > a `pkg_add -rf` fixed wrapper fine uhm. if that worked, are you sure the original error wasn't "this package is already installed?" > but should these symlinks be migrated > one way (/usr/X11R6/...) or the other (/etc/X11/..)? ln -s thanks help\! i have no idea what that question means. all the links you provided linked from /usr/X11R6/lib/something to /etc/X11/something. how does one migrate a symlink? and what does this have to do with the wrapper package? -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message