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Started by Gary Smith
Mon, 31 Jul 1995 00:00
Too many symlinks?
Author: Gary Smith
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 00:00
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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. Hooroo... Gary. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cyberlink Internet | . Gary Smith | Email: gsmith@cbl.com.au | | ---------------- | .-_|\ System Admin. | http://lin.cbl.com.au/ | | CyberLink | / \ CyberLink Access | for Warp IAK How-to | | Internet | \.--._/ Systems | | | Access | v Ballarat, Vic. | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To log in to our BBS - Telnet lin.cbl.com.au - login: bbs - password: guest
Re: Too many symlinks?
Author: Philippe Troin
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 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.
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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Re: Too many symlinks?
Author: John Saunders
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 00:00
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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