Re: [cobalt-users] Stupid CGI path question

[Patrick Béart <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

	Well Steve (Werby), I took your advice (of course) and played 
around a bit. There is no "/usr/local/bin/perl" on the default Raq3. 
So there is no "time stamp". No surprise, since the reference didn't 
work - and that was the problem.
	There IS a "/usr/local/bin" on the system, however.

	Reversing my(Kris') earlier command, as "root", --

			ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl

	...results in a "ls" that outputs "perl", as in:

*******
[root@tesla bin]# ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl
[root@tesla bin]# ls
perl
[root@tesla bin]# pwd
/usr/local/bin
********

	NOW, the "local" reference (/usr/local/bin/perl) SHOULD work 
as well as the "normal" /usr/bin/perl reference.

	I hope, I hope, I hope!     ; )



Patrick Beart
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