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[mesc]

Ol thank you for your reply kaygee

            Gary Martin

kaygee wrote:

> In my experience those are symbolic links to files that no longer exist.
> The files were removed but the links have stayed and now they poin to
> something that isn't there.  I do not know how to rectify that situation
> (I may have at one time but if so I've since forgotten).  Maybe someone
> else on the list knows the solution.
>
> Keith
> ----------
> There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness.
> Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.
>
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, mesc wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this messsage was posted twice.I posted it  from linux last
> > night but I don't think I have pine configured right as far as recieving
> > mail,it only sends it so I don't know if my message was posted last
> > night or if it got any replies.
> >     Anyway while poking around last night trying to get my x windows to
> > run again I ran across 3 files/symbolics links that were flashing in red
> > in the /proc/6 directory called root,exe and cwd..I hesistated to call
> > them symbolic links because they don't have the @ symbol behind them
> > like all other symbolic links do.I tried to remove them (as root) but I
> > got the message can't unlink <file> I then tried chattr -i <file> with
> > no luck.I hope I did that right.I don't know if removing them will solve
> > my x windows trouble but they need to be removed,any other ideas?
> >     I also found a symbolic link called S80nfslock in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
> > that I know I didn't put there.I removed it and that cured my bootup
> > message about nfslock being unable to connect.
> >
> >
> >             Thank you,Gary Martin
> >
> >
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