Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:32:06
Message-Id: 7573e9640601142027r3d4a69cfn2a62d01cca98c453@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem by "Halo0784 (sent by Nabble.com)"
1 On 1/14/06, Halo0784 (sent by Nabble.com) <lists@××××××.com> wrote:
2 > well for the temp fix i did a simple tweak that seemed to work fine
3 >
4 > backup purpose
5 > mv /etc/init.d/vmware /etc/init.d/old-vmware
6 >
7 > then just link in the vmware file
8 > ln -s /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware /etc/init.d/vmware
9
10 This sounds a bit dangerous to me...if you re-install or update vmware
11 you could get the file intended for /etc/init.d/vmware written to
12 /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware, and then an recusive loop as
13 /etc/init.d/vmware recursively executes itself.
14
15 -Richard
16
17 --
18 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list