From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 17:40:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D10114D50 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:40:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA25113; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:40:18 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: ROBERT BECKETT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft link /var to /usr/var In-Reply-To: <3CCB23D4024CD311913700E018C10281B897@MAILSERVER> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, ROBERT BECKETT wrote: Hi, What you should've done is this: Make sure you don't have a /usr/var/directory first - otherwise delete or back it up elsewhere rm -rf /var/run/log mv /var /usr ln -s /usr/var / And then reboot and the /var/run/log will be recreated. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message