[afnog] how to change the maxsymlinks parameter on solaris

[Antonio Godinho]

Hi,

Why don't you move the whole dir /usr/home/popusers to /backup/popusers and 
then make the symlink ln -s /usr/home/popusers /backup/popusers?

Cheers,

AG

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:32:58 +0300, Peter Nyamukusa wrote
> 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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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
CIUEM
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