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On Friday 14 April 2006 02:06, Rohit Sharma wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system |
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> seem to launch mc. |
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> if I delete one, the other disappears as well. |
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> if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears. |
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> Even if /usr/bin/ln is deleted, which ln returns /usr/bin/ln |
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> What is happening. I am completely baffled. |
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Sounds weird.. |
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# cd /usr/bin/ |
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# which ln |
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/usr/bin/ln |
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# mv ln .. |
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# which ln |
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/bin/ln |
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# mv ../ln . |
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# which ln |
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/usr/bin/ln |
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If you run |
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# echo $PATH |
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you will see that /usr/bin is listed before /bin. which searches the |
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directories in $PATH and stops at the first match so since /usr/bin comes |
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before /bin it returns /usr/bin/ln. |
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If you delete /usr/bin/ln it should return /bin/ln which should be unaffected. |
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If you delete /bin/ln then /usr/bin/ln will become a dangling symbolic link |
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pointing at a file which doesn't exist.. |
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Which version of coreutils do you have? |
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# equery b ln |
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[ Searching for file(s) ln in *... ] |
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[...] |
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sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/bin/ln) |
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sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/ln -> /bin/ln) |
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If you are still having problems with this then show us the commands that you |
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are running and the output that leads you to your conclusions.. |
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HtH |
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Bo Andresen |
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