From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 17:12:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.deltanet.com (mail2.deltanet.com [199.171.190.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE2415086 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:12:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from RBECKETT@edlerinc.com) Received: from mailserver.edlerinc.com (mail.edlerinc.com [208.229.108.157]) by mail2.deltanet.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA19143 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by MAILSERVER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:12:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3CCB23D4024CD311913700E018C10281B897@MAILSERVER> From: ROBERT BECKETT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Soft link /var to /usr/var Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:12:11 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I am completely new to unix and have come up against a problem. On p. 87 of Lahey's user manual that came with my ver. 3.2 of FreeBSD, he recommends creating a directory /usr/var and soft-linking it to the original file, /var. When I do that, then re-boot, I get a message to the effect that "cannot find /var/run/... This tells me that the system doesn't know about the link, even though ls -F shows that the link exists. (Actually, it show that the contents of /var is var@). What's wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message