From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Mar 30 23:10: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7471237B41B for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2V7A3M12760; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203310710.g2V7A3M12760@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Makoto Matsushita Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5 Reply-To: Makoto Matsushita Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/36546; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Makoto Matsushita To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:09:47 +0900 mrspock> I found about five, try: Ok, here it is the list: /etc/termcap (-> /usr/share/misc/termcap) /etc/rmt (-> /usr/sbin/rmt) /usr/bin/newaliases (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper) /usr/bin/mailq (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper) /usr/sbin/sendmail (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper) mrspock> I was installing a diskless workstation. In the server I do mrspock> not have a floppy disk driver and I did not installed mrspock> mtools. In the client I had the need of using floppies. I mrspock> installed the client operating system in a disk slice and mrspock> mounted it in the server [let us say in "/dl" directory]. I mrspock> exported "/dl" with all its directories; installed mtools mrspock> and it crossed the file systems. dl/usr/local/bin/mwrite -> mrspock> /usr/local/bin/mtools and I could not use mcopy in the mrspock> client. I assume that in this example, /dl is a "root" directory for this diskless workstation, right? If yes, /dl/usr/local/bin should be treated as /usr/local/bin to this diskless workstation, so this symlink should work as it should be... -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message