Hey, what happened to all my symbolic links!!!!!!

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From: Paul Lansky
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 03:06

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This has got to be the wierdest thing I've ever seen.
We have a small net of 6 machines, and were upgrading
one to 3.0, when all of a sudden, for no reason I
can see, two of the other machines (running 2.1) lost
most or all files which were symbolic links.  Needless
to say we couldn't reboot, because /etc is a link to 
private/etc and /etc/mach_init is a link to ../../usr/etc/mach_init,
etc, etc, etc,  When the dust cleared a day later and we restored
the links by hand, booting from optical, it really looks like
any file on either machine which was a symbolic link simply
disappeared! Can anyone explain this?  I've been hacking at
unix systems for over ten years and have never seen anything
like this.

thanks
paul lansky

paul@princeton.edu

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