I would try cleaning it up manually. I’ve never done this so make sure you backup beforehand. Remove the link from /etc/alternatives Remove the relevant file from the admin directory /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/ on ubuntu (debian may be the same but check the man pages under the FILES section) /var/lib/alternatives/ on CentOS 6&7
So what you have there is a symbolic link that links back to itself. I don’t see how that’s possible with the command you listed at the top of your question, so I suspect this particular symbolic link was created differently. I can replicate your scenario like this: sazerac:~ insyte$ cd testlinks/ sazerac:~/testlinks insyte$ ls … Read more
a way to deploy ASP.NET code with as little site disturbance as possible. It seems like this objective and your proposed solution are not aligned, because you now have a bunch of extra work or scripts involved for every deployment. One thing I have seen is to install an svn client on the production server, … Read more
GNU find’s manpage says that all POSIX finds are supposed to detect filesystem loops and emit error messages in these cases, and I have tested find . -follow -printf “” on GNU find, which was able to find loops of the form ./a -> ./b and ./b -> ./a printing the error find: `./a’: Too … Read more
Use -a option with rsync. It will copy the broken symlinks too. Something like this: # rsync -av source host:destination
I figured it out: semanage has an option -f which allows you to specify a file type as shown in the mode field by ls (d for directories, — for regular files, l for links). When -f -l is used, the link itself is targeted. [root@localhost var]# semanage fcontext -f -l -a -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www … Read more
No sooner had I asked the question than I discovered the answer. In fact, rsync has the option -K / –keep-dirlinks which appears to be exactly what I’m looking for.
It’s likely the SFTP is being chrooted, so that the directory /var/www is not available to the user in the chroot jail. Look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and examine the sftp directives. Do you see something like: Match group sftp ChrootDirectory /home/%u AllowTcpForwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp The sshd_config man page is here. Basically, once the user is … Read more
By using NTFS-3G Advanced, it appears possible to treat existing junctions/NTFS links as if they were Linux symlinks, but my actual goal of creating new ones that work within Windows is a no-go: Dereferencing junction points and symbolic links created by Windows is thus made possible, so are hard linking, renaming and deleting, but creating … Read more
Hell yes. If you execute the ln -s you create a symbolic link, which is an inode pointing to a certain filesystem object, which is why symlinks can traverse filesystems and hard links cannot: hard links do not have their own inode. If you mount a filesystem with –bind, you create a second mountpoint for … Read more