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From: dubois@uwvax.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: LINK_TIMEOUT - what is it?
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Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 15:10:02 EST
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The skeleton .login (/usr/skel/.login) on our system (running Ultrix 1.2)
has a line in it that says:

	setenv	LINK_TIMEOUT	3

What does this refer to?  The number of symbolic links the system will
attempt to cross before getting a "Too many levels of symbolic links"
error?

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