Re: [cobalt-users] Stupid CGI path question

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Béart <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I did this, I received the following output:
> *******************
> [admin@tesla admin]$ su
> Password:
> [root@tesla admin]# ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl
> ln: /usr/bin/perl: File exists

That might be because that symbolic link may have already existed.  Did you
check first?  Check now.  "ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl".  If the timestamp on it
isn't today then it already was there.

> Not being a UNIX guru, the result "File exists" confuses me.
> It sort of looks like an error. Did this work, or do I need to do it
> again(backwards)?  TIA (Kris).

Patrick, there's no harm in creating a temporary directory and creating some
files to practice on.  I find the best way to learn and *remember* is to try,
fail and learn from your mistakes.  Of course being able to do on a
non-production server is preferable.

[root@ns /root]# mkdir tmp
[root@ns /root]# cd tmp
[root@ns tmp]# touch a
[root@ns tmp]# ln -s a b
[root@ns tmp]# ls
total 7
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug 15 22:40 ./
drwxr-x---   8 root     root         6144 Aug 15 22:40 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Aug 15 22:40 a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            1 Aug 15 22:40 b -> a

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Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}