Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:30:04 -0800 (PST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <200203310730.g2V7U4t15573@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/36546; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:29:00 -0600 (CST) On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:09:47 +0900 > From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org > Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> > Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5 > > > 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... Sorry, I think I make something wrong. You are right it works. Nevertheless, wouldn't be better to have relative symbolic links? > > -- - > Makoto `MAR' Matsushita > - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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