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From: wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: symbiolic links under ix/386 version 2.2
Summary: how about simulating them with NFS?
Keywords: ix/386
Message-ID: <857@iiasa.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 90 07:56:29 GMT
References: <2702@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: wnp@iiasa.UUCP (wolf paul)
Organization: IIASA, Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria, Europe
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In article <2702@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
>Are there symbolic links possible in ISC's ver. 2.2 of ix/386?

Nope, but there is a way to simulate them, at least for directories.
It requires that you have the STREAMS, TCP/IP, and NFS subsets
installed. You don't need an ethernet card, this will work with the
loopback driver.

Example:

Suppose you want to symbolically link /var/spool to /usr/spool. Put
/var into the /etc/exports file, and create an entry in /etc/fstab
to look like this:

localhost:/var/spool	/usr/spool	NFS

Of course you need an empty directory /usr/spool before rebooting the
machine or running /etc/mountall.
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