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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: shlib in /usr/spool/ftp
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:06:15 GMT
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- Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
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-
- >I was just setting up anon. ftp, and decided to browse through what
- >somebody would see when they ftp'd in, and saw what I thought was
- >unnecessary "junk" since the man page for ftpd didn't mention it, and
- >it did mention everything else I saw. So, I decided to remove it.
- >What was it that I removed? A directory called "shlib." Those of you
- >who're more experienced with Unix and A/UX probably know the result
- >already....
-
- >Things immediately started going weird; it was then that I realized
- >that the directory had been hard linked to /shlib, which apparently
- >is Very Important, even though I've not yet seen any mention of it
- >in any man page. I then rebooted, figuring that anything that
- >important would get replaced from the autorecovery partition. That's
- >what it's there for, no? Aparently not.
-
- Does this mean that /shlib no longer exists? That is strange, since
- removing the hard link (which I assume was ~ftp/shlib) should just
- remove the link and not the directory it points to...
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