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? > > > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
