From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 19: 4: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40A337B5B6 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA26267 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:03:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-10-028030.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.30]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma026163; Tue, 1 Aug 00 21:03:26 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA12515 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:38:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:38:58 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink Message-ID: <20000801203858.B10382@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.1.32.20000801113413.00812320@pop.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000801113413.00812320@pop.mindspring.com>; from abovone@mindspring.com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:34:13AM -0400 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:34:13AM -0400, abovone@mindspring.com wrote: > While unpacking the tgz file I whated for X I receaved an error message on > all the files > tar: could not create sysmlink to - (file name) file exists > What does this mean? > thanks > Alex ---end quoted text--- Maybe linking /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the actual Xserver? -- David Kanter djkanter@northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message