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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:53 am    Post subject: Tto many levels of symbolic links? Reply with quote

after i emerge something i always get this message

ls: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 to many levels of symbolic links.

What exactaly does this mean?
thanks!!!! :):):):)
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
ls -l /etc/init.d

net.eth1 should point to net.lo
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

net.eth1 points to net.eth1

is this the corect comand to change the symlink to net.lo

in the /etc/init.d directory run
# ln -s net.eth1 net.lo

??? couldn't quite grip the ln man page
extreme n00b here
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the gentoo docs
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Code Listing 4: Changing the kernel source symlink

# rm /usr/src/linux
# cd /usr/src
# ln -s linux-2.4.26 linux
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