On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, David Malone wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:52:59AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? > > All of the programs you list are actually hardlinks to one another.
*aarrrggg* should have had another look at it this morning after some minutes of sleep. > If you run "ls -li" on them, you will see that they have the same > inode number, and are consequently the same file. yes. of course. I should recheck the way I had copied them into my image. Must have used cp -p this night instead of tar -cpf - | tar -xpf - -C ... or s.th. like this. That's most likely the problem I hadn't seen a link count > 1 because I didn't look at the original installation: noc:~/install-20031018/usr/bin# ls -i ex nex nvi nview vi view 47625 ex 47625 nex 47625 nvi 47625 nview 47625 vi 47625 view but noc:/mnt/usr/bin# ls -i ex nex nvi nview vi view 346 ex 246 nex 240 nvi 239 nview 114 vi 113 view many thanks for all the answers. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/ tech support excuse #226: Fatal error right in front of screen _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"