On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 22:12:29 -0700 (PDT)
Spencer Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think the problem is the link between (in my case)
> /mnt/lfs/tools and /.  This is because when I run:
> 
> pl -sv /mnt/lfs/tools /
> 
> it returns
> 
> ln: creating symbolic link `/tools': File exists
> 

I get:

andy:~$ pl -sv /mnt/lfs/tools /
bash: pl: command not found

I'm guessing you made a typo when you entered the command the first
time? Copy and paste helps to avoid typos.

> I'm not sure if this will help but when I run
> ls -ali in /mnt/lfs/tools it returns:
> 
> total 8
> 360449 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-04-01 21:18 .
>      2 drwxr-xr-x 6 lfs  root 4096 2011-04-01 21:18 ..
> 

You could find out where /tools is pointing:

file /tools
ls -l /

Or you could just force ln to replace the existing symlink:
ln -svf /mnt/lfs/tools /

Andy
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