binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?

2003-10-19 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
Hi, I had been going through /usr/bin to see what I would need for a very small installation and noticed that there are binaries installed multiple times with different names of course. My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? From those that I had not deleted I remember the

Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?

2003-10-19 Thread Q
If you had checked the link count you would have seen that the binaries you mentioned are actually not installed multiple times, but are hard linked under multiple names, and therefore only take up the space of a single instance of the file. If these binary files are located on the same filesystem

Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?

2003-10-19 Thread David Malone
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:52:59AM +, 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. If you run ls -li on them, you will see that they have the same inode number, and are consequently the

Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?

2003-10-19 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, David Malone wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:52:59AM +, 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

Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?

2003-10-19 Thread slave-mike
Or try and figure out a way to get UPX to work on *BSD - Original Message - From: Q [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bjoern A. Zeeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:20 AM Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ? If you had checked