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#! rnews 2111 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!easynet-uk!easynet-fr!easynet-buggy!usenet From: Michael Hallgren <hallgren@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Too many symbolic links, Symbolic link loop Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:03:02 +0200 Organization: Easynet France Message-ID: <33B292B6.728E751@easynet.fr> References: <33B22527.5821785A@easynet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.easynet.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i586) Lines: 52 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43568 Hello, again, Don't think I'm crazy ;-) I've solved my "Too many..." problem. Perl now works just fine :-). But, (at least) two utilities doesn't want to work: /usr/sbin/adduser and /usr/sbin/rmuser My system claims that the files doesn't exist, but ls -l shows their presense . Well... ;-) Cheers Michael Michael Hallgren wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm fighting with a FreeBSD machine. Roughly what I'm up to: I clean > installed FreeBSD, with the DES option. The goal is to set up an Apache > on the machine. Then I performed a rdist from a BSDI machine, importing > stuff like password file, user directories, user quotas, shells. The > Apache works > just fine, but when I try to run Perl I get stuck with the error > message: > "Too many symbolic links" (under bash), "Symbolic link loop" (under sh). > I've > scanned through my symbolic links w/o finding something striking. > Basically, the > links I have are "shortcuts to shells", some links to user logs... > Anyone seen this kind of problem? Anyone solved it? How? > > Cheers > > Michael > -- > Michael Hallgren, Easynet France > Write : http://www.loria.fr/tex > Play : http://www.perl.com/perl -- Michael Hallgren, Easynet France Write : http://www.loria.fr/tex Play : http://www.perl.com/perl