From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 9:20:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDA214EDD for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:20:18 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB9@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: moving /tmp to /var/tmp caused network trouble Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:21:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maybe I'm just totally confused. But I thought "." was the current directory, which in this case was the root dir "/". Or am I missing something here? -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Jesse [SMTP:jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De] > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 11:09 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: moving /tmp to /var/tmp caused network trouble > > Christopher Michaels writes: > > > > # ln -s /var/tmp . > > > > > Shouldn't this be, ln -s /var/tmp /tmp, ? I've taken almost the > > exact same steps and have absolutely no problems at all. > > Well, isn't this the same thing? Both, 'cd /; ln -s /var/tmp .' and > 'ln -s /var/tmp /tmp' result in /tmp being a symbolic link to > /var/tmp. > > I am really out of clues of what is going wrong here. > > Roland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message