[afnog] how to change the maxsymlinks parameter on solaris

[Peter Nyamukusa]

Hi Stephane,

I managed to resolve this the symlink is now working thanks

/usr/home/popusers/p # ls -la petern
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         23 Mar 25 12:59 petern ->
/backup/popusers/petern

Cheers,
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>From: afnog-bounces at afnog.org [mailto:afnog-bounces at afnog.org] On Behalf Of
>Peter Nyamukusa
>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:33 PM
>To: 'Stephane Bortzmeyer'
>Cc: 'AfNOG AfNOG'
>Subject: Re: [afnog] how to change the maxsymlinks parameter on solaris
>
>Hi Stephane
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at nic.fr]
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:09 AM
>>To: Peter Nyamukusa
>>Cc: AfNOG AfNOG
>>Subject: Re: how to change the maxsymlinks parameter on solaris
>>
>>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:27:47AM +0300,
>> Peter Nyamukusa <petern at africaonline.co.tz> wrote
>> a message of 33 lines which said:
>>
>>> The problem I am now faced with is that it looks like I am exceeding
>>> the default MAXSYMLINKS see below:
>>
>>No, the problem looks like you created a loop by accident. I do not
>>not the default value of MAXSYMLINKS but it is probably difficult to
>>exceed it!
>
>
>Your are right I can see that there is a loop ok what I am trying to do is
>link my mailbox folder from its original place to some free space on
>another
>partition so that all subsequent email is stored on that partition
>
>/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 - contains users mail boxes mounted on /usr/home
>/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - has free space mounted on /backup
>
>So from /usr/home/popusers/p/ I have moved petern to /backup
>Then on backup created a simlink as follows
>#ln -s petern /usr/home/popusers/p/
>
>and changed the permission on the symlink as below
>
>ls -la /usr/home/popusers/p/petern
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 popusers popusers       6 Mar 25 11:45
>/usr/home/popusers/p/petern -> petern
>
>But Like you said it's a loop I still trying to figure out how I can
>achieve
>a symlink to solve this problem
>
>Cheers
>Peter
>>
>>> Unable_to_switch_to_/usr/home/popusers/p/petern:_symbolic_link_loop.
>
>
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