Re: link question

2020-02-26 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Feb 2020 at 13:23:19 (-0700), ghe wrote: > What does, in /usr/bin/X11, 'X11 -> .' mean? That symlink is actually in /usr/bin/, so your example here has already followed it once. > Looks to me like it means 'link to ' Indeed. This means that an old script which tries to run /usr/bin/X1

Re: link question

2020-02-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:29:02 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > Show > the actual COMMAND you run and the actual OUTPUT of the command. Indeed. The only thing I would add is show the next prompt so that the reader knows you've given all the output, not just the first line. charles@jhegaala:~$ ls -l /

Re: link question

2020-02-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 01:23:19PM -0700, ghe wrote: > What does, in /usr/bin/X11, 'X11 -> .' mean? You mean this: wooledg:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Nov 23 2016 /usr/bin/X11/X11 -> . Note how unclear your description is, and how clear mine is. Show the actual COMMAND