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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Why are symbolic links this way
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Date: 4 May 90 15:07:51 GMT
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In article <2402@uniol.UUCP> lehners@uniol.UUCP (Joerg Lehners) writes:
>The problem is not the `node_data link itself. The problem is
>the evaluation of such a link if the link is on a different node than
>the node I'm logged on.

The problem is not evaluation of links, it's how well you understand the
way Apollo sets up some administrative directories. The way Apollo trying
to have two favors of Unix uses lots of soft-link in /usr. Just cd /usr
and do a 'ls -lg'. 

>	more //*/etc/ttys.
>But what: I see <number of nodes> times the /etc/ttys of the node I logged
>on. This is not what I want.
>the command 'more //*/sys/node_data/etc/ttys' does'nt work either when
>there are diskless nodes in the net ....

Well, you can use 'more //*/sys/node_data*/etc/ttys' for sure.
                                         ^
You may encounter more softlinks 'inconvience' when dealing with SMTP mail,
uucp, and some other programs that require you use ONE apollo as the administrative
node and have the rest of the network link to it. It just needs more time
to get used to it.


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