Excellent. Basic system administration: relative links are (almost) always
preferable to absolute links... think nfs.
Tim Conway
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Subject: Re: losing leading / when copying symbolic links
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:35:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It may be that you can fix your problem without modifying rsync or getting
> root access to do chroot, simply by making your symlinks relative in the
> source. If /module/dir/link points to /othermodule/otherdir, perhaps you
> could point it to ../../othermodule/otherdir, for instance.
Good suggestion although actually a relative path that moves out of the
module (total number '..' pieces more than the depth of the path) is also
disallowed. Only relative paths within a module are allowed. The
example he originally gave was a complete path to another file in the
same directory so he could just remove the whole directory component of
the path.
- Dave Dykstra
