No problem. Sometimes symlinks are funny like that, because an ls will follow a link in most cases.
Good luck with you OpenOffice compile! ~Mike -><- "And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)" --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Timothy James Friesen wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks for your post. > > It turns out that /usr/tmp was pointing to /var/tmp. I have no idea how that > happened. I guess I want /var/tmp to point to /usr/tmp. > > Thanks, > > Tim > > On June 18, 2003 12:27 pm, Mike Principito wrote: > > What does the output of the following give? > > > > $ ls /usr | grep tmp > > > > ~Mike > > > > > > -><- > > > > "And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and > > space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)" > > --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > > > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Timothy James Friesen wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Weird things are going on. I updated last niht, and had the same results > > > in /usr/tmp/portage and /var/tmp/portage. > > > > > > This is the result of an ls -la on /usr/tmp: > > > > > > Grenouille root # ls -la /usr/tmp/ > > > total 12 > > > drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 01:30 . > > > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 14 04:48 .. > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 13 20:09 .keep > > > drwxr-xr-x 9 portage portage 4096 Jun 18 01:33 portage > > > > > > This is the result of an ls -la on /var/tmp: > > > > > > Grenouille root # ls -la /var/tmp > > > total 12 > > > drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 01:30 . > > > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 14 04:48 .. > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 13 20:09 .keep > > > drwxr-xr-x 9 portage portage 4096 Jun 18 01:33 portage > > > > > > It doesn't look like a symlink to me. And yet when I deleted > > > /var/tmp/portage, /usr/tmp/portage disappeared as well. Is it possible > > > to have "invisible" symlinks? What could be going on here? How do I > > > find out if this is really symlinked, and why does the lnk keep > > > reappearing after I delete it? > > > > > > I think if I get that taken care of, I might finally be able to switch > > > the portage tmpdir. > > > > > > Thanks for all the help, > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > On June 18, 2003 01:20 am, Mike Principito wrote: > > > > Check out /usr/tmp from what you just said it sounds like /usr/tmp is > > > > indeed linked to /var/tmp. Remove the link and double check that > > > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR is infact pointing to /usr/tmp. > > > > > > > > $ emerge info | grep PORTAGE_TMPDIR > > > > > > > > If all goes well and the link is gone you should be good to go. I'd be > > > > careful w/ that OpenOffice though. That is a huge package to compile. > > > > Depending on your specs you could be at it for days. Alternativly you > > > > install openoffice-bin for the prebuilt binaries. > > > > > > > > Good luck! > > > > > > > > ~Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -><- > > > > > > > > "And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and > > > > space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)" > > > > --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > > > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Timothy James Friesen wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > > > I have been trying to emerge OpenOffice. I created my / partition > > > > > too small, and it fills up trying to emerge OO. I have tried > > > > > changing make .conf and 'export Portage_TMPDIR' so that portage will > > > > > use /usr/tmp instead of /var/tmp, but it seems that /usr/tmp/portage > > > > > is acting as a symlink to /var/tmp as the disk free amount only > > > > > changes on my / partition, never my /usr partition. > > > > > > > > > > Any help anyone can offer so that I can get portage to stop using > > > > > /var/tmp and start using /usr/tmp would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
