Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-11 Thread listmail
Nope, the DIR_COLORS are as they should be at default :( sub On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Listmail, > > > The link will blink red. If i open temp.lnk, all the contents from > > temp.txt are properly displayed... > > Maybe some joker friend messed wit

Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Listmail, > The link will blink red. If i open temp.lnk, all the contents from > temp.txt are properly displayed... Maybe some joker friend messed with your DIR_COLORS? Bye, Leonard.

Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-10 Thread listmail
I am not certain if this is the problem or not. I have my drive split into 3 partitions. One is mounted as /home, and another as /var. However everything is mounted and working properly, and the links appear to be borken no matter where they are. For example if I create a file say temp.txt the

Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-10 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:36:18PM -0700, listmail wrote: > On my Redhat 6.2 server all of my symbolic links are blinking red > as if they are broken, but they seeom to otherwise be working normally. > Any idea what might be causing this? Have you tried to follow these links? I.e. have you

Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-10 Thread Statux
The color sequence prolly got flipped to where what used to be bad links is now good links :) Us Linux people are spoiled with our colorized ls... FreeBSD people, etc, don't get pretty colors :P On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, listmail wrote: > On my Redhat 6.2 server all of my symbolic links are bli

Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:36:18PM -0700, listmail wrote: | as if they are broken, but they seeom to otherwise be working normally. | Any idea what might be causing this? | sub That's incredibly vague. Got a transcript of what is actually going wrong? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PRO

Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-10 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I've had this happen - I'll try to give you a layman's best guess answer: If the kernel interprets the path you are linking to as an invalid one then you will get the red blinking, even if it works. For example, I run ProFTPD on a server I have that hosts web sites. For security purposes I chro