Hi!

Does anyone know, how to do the following:

I have an executable in /opt, e.g. /opt/exec1
But some other program need it to be in /sbin, which is write protected.

How can I make /opt/exec1 to appear to be /sbin/exec1 ?

Have tried with ln , but no success so far.

Thanks for any help!

magicpio

You mean you don't have the permissions to write to it? You can always do it if you're root.

I tried this, but that´s not the issue.

I´m using Dam Small Linux, they somehow make links to core utils, which are inside
a compressed file (in fact the whole linux stuff is in one compressed file).
Some of it will be uncompressed onto a ram disk, which is write protected,
but the whole /sbin seems to remain inside the compressed file and a particular program
is only extracted somehow and temporarily, when the command is beeing called from the command line.

When I´m trying to copy my binary into the directory /sbin I get a 'write protected' message, even as su, which is logical.
And since I´m unable to re-create the compressed file including my executable, I´m looking for a workaround.