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- From: spencer@panix.com (David Spencer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: shlib in /usr/spool/ftp
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.173450.7264@panix.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 17:34:50 GMT
- References: <92364.145827AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET> <1342@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
-
- >Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
-
- >>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,
-
- >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...
-
- Unless ~ftp/shlib was a symlink and he deleted it by dragging it to
- the Trash. In which case he lost /shlib, too.
-
- Aren't /unix and essential bootstuff static linked? They are on other
- unices, so that one can at least boot and recover the original /shlib
- if one munges /shlib.
-
- I don't agree with the original poster that Apple's to blame for not
- mentioning it in the manpage (you'd have to put "DON'T MESS WITH
- ANYTHING CALLED shlib!" in every manpage). But maybe /shlib should be
- called /DONT_EVEN_THINK_OF_TOUCHING_THIS..... And this Trash bug is
- mean and dangerous.
-
- dhs spencer@panix.com
-