Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Crowther
On 22 March 2011 08:32, Goyo wrote: > Inside "origin" there're about ten subdirs like "target". Some of them are > symlinked to the new filesystem. The rest, must remain in their path so: > - AFAIK, we can't mount the new drive to origin/target because target is > not > the only subdir we are sym

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-22 Thread Goyo
s there's no an easy way... 2011/3/22 Caldarale, Charles R > > From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > > Subject: Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true) > > > The perl documentation for rename() though, has this to say : > > rename OL

RE: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > Subject: Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true) > The perl documentation for rename() though, has this to say : > rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME > > perl itself being written in C, is usually pretty close to

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread André Warnier
André Warnier wrote: Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: peter.crowth...@googlemail.com [mailto:peter.crowth...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Crowther Subject: Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true) Maybe a guess : under Unix/Linux, "move" (mv) is

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: peter.crowth...@googlemail.com [mailto:peter.crowth...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Crowther Subject: Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true) Maybe a guess : under Unix/Linux, "move" (mv) is a "rename",

RE: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: peter.crowth...@googlemail.com [mailto:peter.crowth...@googlemail.com] > On Behalf Of Peter Crowther > Subject: Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true) > > Maybe a guess : under Unix/Linux, "move" (mv) is a "rename", >

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Crowther
On 21 March 2011 20:39, André Warnier wrote: > Maybe a guess : under Unix/Linux, "move" (mv) is a "rename", and it is not > the same as "copy + delete original". And a "move" (rename) works as long > as the source and target are inside the same filesystem, but not if they are > on different file

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread André Warnier
Goyo wrote: Yeah, it's a very old version. But we can't change it, anyway. The details about the moving: The application (written in C), first, generates a new file which is stored in one directory, say "origin". This step is perfectly made. Then, the application moves this file to another direc

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Crowther
On 21 March 2011 17:36, Goyo wrote: The (another) problem is that we can't access the source code :S *chuckle* Gotta love configurable code. OK, so the issue is that you're short of space. How about mounting a partition at origin/target? Or even origin, depending how short of space you are. I

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread Goyo
The (another) problem is that we can't access the source code :S 2011/3/21 Peter Crowther > On 21 March 2011 16:35, Goyo wrote: > > > We want to move a file from origin/ to origin/target/ > > Previously, this movement was made perfect > > Then, we change origin/target/ for a symlink called targ

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Crowther
On 21 March 2011 16:35, Goyo wrote: > We want to move a file from origin/ to origin/target/ > Previously, this movement was made perfect > Then, we change origin/target/ for a symlink called target which points to > another path in another partition. > Now, it doesn't move the file when using the

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread Goyo
Yeah, it's a very old version. But we can't change it, anyway. The details about the moving: The application (written in C), first, generates a new file which is stored in one directory, say "origin". This step is perfectly made. Then, the application moves this file to another directory "target".

Re: Can't move files using symbolic links (allowLinking=true)

2011-03-21 Thread André Warnier
Goyo wrote: Hi. I need to use a symbolic link to access a certain path in my server, where I'm using Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.18. Oh, a real old-timer, he ? You know how old this is, right ? I think some people on this list may still have been in primary school when it was released. See http://tom