On 07/15/2012 05:56 PM, Nick Thomas wrote: > Hello! > I tried to create a symbolic link using ln -s ... but instead of getting > a link of size about 20 bytes I obtained an executable file of length > 1.9Mb i.e. a copy of the destination file !!
That's exceedingly unlikely. Maybe it created a hard link? In any case we'll need more info. kernel, file system, ln version, command issued, ... > This was using sudo to repair a problem running qmake in qt3 in /usr/bin > Nick Thomas cheers, Pádraig.
