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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 00:38:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        ROBERT BECKETT <RBECKETT@edlerinc.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Soft link /var to /usr/var 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911040036230.344-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
In-Reply-To: <47491.941703734@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> > 	That will not work unless you rm -rf /var/run/log first =)
> 
> Can you explain why not?

	Because the /var/run/log file has certain permissions set.  Try to
mv /var/run/log to another location and see what happens.  I know it
doesn't work on all my newly installed systems.


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