I've had this happen - I'll try to give you a layman's best guess answer:
If the kernel interprets the path you are linking to as an invalid one
then you will get the red blinking, even if it works. For example, I run
ProFTPD on a server I have that hosts web sites. For security purposes I
chroot those who ftp in. Consequently symlinks from ~/ to their web
directory have to use a different path to access their web site directory.
Instead of
/home/httpd/html/mydomain.com the path becomes
/httpd/html/mydomain.com.
which caused every link to brink bright red, making it difficult to see
the rest of the screen. If you wish to change the red blinking to
something more palatable edit /etc/DIR_COLORS. This is what mine looks
like:
# Changed by root 5/24/00 to work with ProFTPd
#ORPHAN 01;05;37;41 # orphaned symlinks
#MISSING 01;05;37;41 # ... and the files they point to
ORPHAN 01;31 # orphaned symlinks
MISSING 01;34 # ... and the files they point to
Glen
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, listmail wrote:
> On my Redhat 6.2 server all of my symbolic links are blinking red
>as if they are broken, but they seeom to otherwise be working normally.
>Any idea what might be causing this?
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