Re: /etc/skel failure
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:56:46 -0600 Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The short form of the story is that I can't have a symbolic link in ~/.dosemu/drive_c as part of an /etc/skel profile and have it actually work. After further experimentation, I'm starting to think there is something more fundamentally strange going on here. If I create a new user when the .dosemu directory is set up by /etc/skel, I load dosemu and do a dir I get the directory listing that is actually in /usr/share/dosemu/drive_z. If I delete .dosemu in my new user's directory and then run dosemu and do a dir I see what is in .dosemu/drive_c like I expected. It seems to be looking in the wrong place for drive C when the .dosemu directory is set up from /etc/skel, and it straightens itself out if it's allowed to create its own .dosemu directory instead. Some kind of a redirection problem? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-msdos in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
/etc/skel failure
I have had this happen before, but just now figured out exactly what's going on. I still don't know why. I create a user and run dosemu, then go into ~/.dosemu/drive_c and make a symbolic link to another directory: ln -s /opt/data/test . Now I have a link in ~/.dosemu/drive_c that goes to /opt/data/test and if I load dosemu and type cd test it takes me to /opt/data/test just like it should. I use that user's home directory to create a /etc/skel directory for creating new users home directories from. When I create a new user with that /etc/skel in place, I have a link to /opt/data/test in ~/.dosemu/drive_c just like I should. But: dosemu doesn't see it. In the dosemu window, I type dir and cant' see TEST listed at all. cd test doesn't work. Removing ~/.dosemu from the new user's directory and running dosemu and adding the link works as expected. The short form of the story is that I can't have a symbolic link in ~/.dosemu/drive_c as part of an /etc/skel profile and have it actually work. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-msdos in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
