From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 8: 9:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De [141.44.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC0D14BD8 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De) Received: from knecht.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (jesse@knecht [141.44.21.3]) by csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA23348 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:09:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (from jesse@localhost) by knecht.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA09049; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:09:26 +0100 (MET) From: Roland Jesse MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14073.3638.345487.643422@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:09:26 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: moving /tmp to /var/tmp caused network trouble In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB8@site2s1> References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB8@site2s1> X-Mailer: VM 6.70 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: Roland Jesse X-Organization: University of Magdeburg X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 5D 08 5A E3 B4 AA 68 C1 FF 67 06 29 62 DD 9A D7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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