problem with perl created symlinks

[Dave Mitchell]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:12:30AM -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> I have a perl script that creates some symlinks. The symlinks get
> created but I can't see them over samba or nfs. If I create the symlink
> manually at a prompt it works fine and I can see it over samba and nfs.
> If I compare two create each way I can't see any difference in file
> properties. 
> 
> If I do a simple ls, the symlink created by perl is a maroon color (in
> my specific terminal session), while the manually created one is a light
> blue color. What could be making these different?
> 
> This is on FC2. Anyone know what the problem could be?
> 
> Perl is creating them like:
> symlink "$oldpath/$oldfilename", "$newpath/$newfilename" or die "Failed
> to create symlink $newpath/$newfilename: $!";

At a guess I'd say that the ones you created with the perl script
point to the wrong location.
Try 'ls -l' and ls '-lL' on both the good and the bad links and
us what you get.

Dave.

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