On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:45:26PM -0400, M. Neidorff wrote:
| I just noticed (although it could have been there for a
| while) that my /tmp directory (RH 6.2 upgraded from 5.2) has a link it in which is
| called tmp and points to /tmp. This seems to be a pointless
| recursive link to me, but there may be a good reason for it
| being there. Does this link have a reason for being there
| or can I safely remove it?
You can remove it.
THis kind of thing is easy to do by accident. For example, suppose you were
making a symlink to a dir so that it was known as:
/path/to/newname
You'd say:
ln -s /path/to/realname /path/to/newname
But if /path/to/newname is an already existing directory this will make
a symlink _inside_ /path/to/newname called "realname". There are several
variants on this kind of accident. Maybe one caused your /tmp link.
Cheers,
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