Absolute symlinks hell!!

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:44:35 +0000, Robin Atwood wrote:

> > Does the installer give an example of an absolute link that it's
> > complaining about?
> 
> Hmmm, so much for that theory. It actually complains about:
> 
> [root at opal root]# ls -l /usr/tmp
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Jun 21 20:22 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
> [root at opal root]# ls -al /var/tmp
> total 2434
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    1024 Nov 16 18:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x  19 root root    1024 Jun  6 17:31 ..
> 
> which looks quite kosher to me. Any ideas what's throwing it?

Apart from wrong permissions, what do you get if you make /usr/tmp a
relative link to ../var/tmp?

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