Slackware: X symbolic link

Slackware: X symbolic link

Post by Eric Shia » Fri, 03 Apr 1998 04:00:00



I just tried to install slackware from sunsite.lanet.lv yesterday, for
new installation.  Everything went well, however, when I tried to bring
up X-window, the system cannot find X.  I looked the symbolic link which
from /usr/X11R6/bin/X point to /var/X11R6/bin/X.  Then I went to
/var/X11R6 and only find lib subdirectory, nothing else.  Can anyone
help me where can I find /var/X11R6/bin/X?

Thanks in advance.

 
 
 

Slackware: X symbolic link

Post by Alexander Vi » Fri, 03 Apr 1998 04:00:00


mkdir /var/X11R6/bin
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 /var/X11R6/bin/X

That's it. Just replace XF86_S3 in the above with the name of _your_
server. The idea behind this scheme is that you don't need to change
anything on /usr to switch to different server. It looks so:

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -> /var/X11R6/bin/X -> actual server (on /usr).

Imagine the system where /usr is NFS-mounted by several machines with
different cards... /usr/X11R6/bin/X will be the same for all, but /var
will be local, so they'll be able to use different servers with this
scheme. HTH.
                                                        Good luck,
                                                                  Al

 
 
 

1. Too many symbolic links, Symbolic link loop

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

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