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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:36:09
Message-Id: 20060414013216.GA3251@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup by Rohit Sharma
1 On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:06:57AM +0100, Penguin Lover Rohit Sharma squawked:
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system
5 > seem to launch mc.
6 > if I delete one, the other disappears as well.
7 > if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears.
8 > Even if /usr/bin/ln is deleted, which ln returns /usr/bin/ln
9 >
10 > What is happening. I am completely baffled.
11
12 Is it a bad symlink? On my box /usr/bin/ln is a symlink to /bin/ln
13
14 [09:31 PM]wwong man $ ls -l `which ln`
15 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 13 16:55 /usr/bin/ln -> /bin/ln
16
17 W
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20 Smart man + Dumb woman = affair
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22 Dumb man + Dumb woman = pregnancy
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