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05-28-2006, 10:31 PM
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Registered: Apr 2006
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change ownership for symbolic link
Hi all,
i have this symbolic link file in which i have remove and recreated it and after changing the permission i do a ln -fs source file link file, i get a "file exists". This is able to work in AIX but not Solaris, so how do i solve this ? Thanks
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05-29-2006, 01:45 AM
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Registered: Mar 2006
Distribution: BackTrack, RHEL, FC, CentOS, IPCop, Ubuntu, 64Studio, Elive, Dream Linux, Trix Box
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Hi DarReNz,
when I tried
ln -s <somefile> <linktoit>
It created a link to "somefile" named as "linktoit"
Then I tried :-
ln -s <newlinkname> <somefile>
which gave following error:-
ln: `somefile': File exists
Then I tried :-
ln -s <linktoit> <otherfile>
It gave following error:-
ln: `linktoit': File exists
May be you have swapped positions mistakenly or the files really exist.
Hope, this will help you
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