Today I got bitten again by a facet of Debian/Linux that has a simple solution.
At many places in the Debian distribution, symlinks are made from one standard location to other standard locations. A perfect example of this is the symlink of /usr/lib/X11 to "../X11R6/lib/X11". In this case, both /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 are standard locations that aren't likely to move. In my situation, because of a lack of diskspace, I have /usr/lib and /usr/src living on a second hard drive partition, with symlinks from both to the appropriate places on the other partition. This creates problems with symlinks like the one above, since the symlink to "../X11R6/lib/X11" no longer points to the same spot (there is no X11R6 subdirectory in /usr/lib/.. on my system, but there is a /usr/X11R6). Attempts to find stuff in /usr/lib/X11 failed until I redid the relative symlink to an absolute symlink. Today, I got bitten by PGP, wanting to find a document in /usr/lib/pgp-us/doc, which is symlinked to ../../doc/pgp-us, a location that doesn't exist on my system (although the files it wanted were in /usr/doc/pgp-us, it couldn't find them). Is there a reason why these (and other) symlinks are relative, instead of absolute? If so, how can I find them and "fix" them before something else on my system breaks because of it? Thanks. -- Buddha Buck 85.5 Albany Street Cazenovia, NY 13035-1216 This Space For Rent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
