SUMMARY: MAXSYMLINK

From: Joe R. Jah (jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us)
Date: Thu Feb 20 1997 - 13:28:53 CST


Hi Folks,

Such quick responses:-)) Is this list great or what!

Many thanks to:

"K.Ravi" <RAVKRISH.IN.ORACLE.COM.ofcmail@in.oracle.com>
Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@MCI.Com>

The original message:
> I run a Solaris 2.5 box; whenever I reboot I get the following message:
>
> ________________[message begin]________________
> /dev/bd.off: Number of symbolic links encountered during path name
> traversal exeeds MAXSYMLINK
> _________________[message end]________________
>
> I have installed GNU-C compiler on /export/home/local directory and
> created the symbolic link /usr/local to point to it. Now the directory
> has grown to be huge and I suspect it to be the problem. What is the
> least painful solution to this problem, if this actually is the reason
> for the above message

Answer:

Do an "ls -l /dev/bd.off"

See where it points. POSSIBLY it points to itself. oops!

Just remove /dev/bd.off; it's a link to itself.

Joe

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