Re: [SLUG] Symlink handling in 2.2.14

[John Clarke <johnc@nospam.vastsystems.com.au>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:04:46PM +1000, Andrew Macks wrote:

> Hmm, did anybody else notice a change in the handling of symlinks between
> 2.2.13 and 2.2.14?

I doubt it's anything to do with 2.2.14.  I've upgraded from 2.0.36 ->
2.0.38 -> 2.2.5 -> 2.2.11 -> 2.2.13 -> 2.2.14 on my workstation and
nothing like this has happened along the way.

The colours are nothing to do with the kernel, they're generated by ls.

> I, overnight, upgraded to SuSE 6.4 from 6.3.  Suddenly, my symlinks are
> not appearing as they should in an ls -l

So you didn't just upgrade the kernel.

Do you get the right colours if you use `ls --color=auto'?  If so, then
you've probably lost the alias ls='ls --color=auto'.  Do you still see the
link details in ls's output:

[johnc@nospam.dropbear ~]$ ls -ld /usr/src/linux
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           12 Mar  2 15:54 linux -> linux-2.2.14


Cheers,

John
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