Re: Too many symlinks?

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From: John Saunders
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 00:00

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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.

The filesystem has a limit on the number of times it will follow the redirection
of a symlink to prevent infinite loops. I don't know what this number is offhand
but it's high enough for most purposes. If I were you I would make sure that you
don't have a circular reference. I.e.

	/etc/utmp -> /var/adm/utmp
	/var/adm/utmp -> /etc/utmp
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From: johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders)
Subject: Re: Too many symlinks?
Date: 1995/08/01
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