Re: [cobalt-users] symlink error

[c.raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

The answer is to move to /home/log the contents of /var/log/
delete /var/log and link /var/log to /home/log (a redirect as it were :))

Then the machine will use /home/log whenever it goes to use /var/log/

In theory  ;)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gonzalo Servat" <gonzalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] symlink error


> Luc Schiltz wrote:
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > I wanted to symlink /var/log to /home/log, as the partition gets pretty
full
> >
> > I did : ln -s /home/log /var which works fine, but the files messages
and maillog
> > don't get updated anymore
> >
> > does anybody know how to fix this ?
>
> Hi Luc.
>
> If you are trying to link /var/log to /home/log, I don't see how that is
> going to solve your problem as symlinking will still use up the /var/
> space.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gonzalo.
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