Quoting eduardo tongson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> * can you please mention the specific application 
> * have you tried checking/fscking the filesystems where the files reside?
> 

Also try an strace of the application and see if the file is unlinked and
reopened at any point.

Brian

> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:51:47AM +0800,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Scenario:
> > 
> > - There is a soft link from /etc/test/king.ini to
> > /opt/harvard/baby/yo/king.ini.
> > 
> > - From time to time the application that owns the king.ini stops working
> > without any warning.
> > 
> > - After a failure, the /etc/test/king.ini file system object is not a
> > soft link but a regular file. Its content is part of the pointed file
> > (/opt/harvard/baby/yo/king.ini)
> > 
> > - The contents of this regular file are not the same as the
> > /opt/harvard/baby/yo/king.ini. Some entries are missing.
> > 
> > - The workaround is to manually delete the regular file
> > /etc/test/king.ini and to re-create the soft link. After doing this the
> > program works fine.
> > 
> > Any idea on why this happens? Is this normal if an application (with
> > softlinks) crashed? 
> > 
>  
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