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Gary Smith (grs@lin.cbl.com.au) wrote:
: I added a 1GB HD as the second drive on my system and moved the /usr directory 
: tree on to it. I also created symbolic links from /var/adm and other 
: directories which are normally linked (although I think /usr/adm was a link to 
: /var/adm rather than the (reverse) way I have it now). Anyway, when I boot up, 
: it says something along the lines of 'Too many symbolic links: /var/utmp'. I 
: haven't noticed any problems but I'd like to know how to get rid of this error 
: message.

This kind of error arises generally when resolving the symlink turns into
a loop...
Try:
	ln -s a b
	ln -s b a
	cat a
So try to lookup some loops...
The following should work (tested on SunOS):
	# find / -type l -exec head -0 {} \;
It should give an error for each unresolved link...

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