From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 26 6: 5:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from commnet.accn.org (commnet.accn.org [207.73.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62CA153D4 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 06:05:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryanm@accn.org) Received: from accn.org (rocky.accn.org [207.73.64.8]) by commnet.accn.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01993 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:05:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36FB939F.5352BAA4@accn.org> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:03:11 -0500 From: ryanm Reply-To: ryanm@accn.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Symbolic Links to Servers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello everyone I am using FreeBSD 3.1 and wondering if a symbolic link to an often hit server makes any performance differences?? for upgradeability I always do the same thing: /usr/local/etc/qpopper-2.53 # ACTUAL DAEMON /usr/local/etc/qpopper -> /usr/local/etc/qpopper-2.53 that way I can copy over qpopper to /usr/local/etc change the link and not muck with inetd except for restarting it. Does anyone know what type of performance penalties could come from this?? Thanks for any information anyone can provide me with. Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message