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Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Dec 1 10:48:19 PST 2006


On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> I wanted to have the /var/spool/exim/ subdirecotries (scan , input db,
> msglog) run in the /usr slice (as it has ample space)
>
> So I MOVED exim to  /usr/var2 and ran
>
> ln -s /var/spool/exim /usr/var2/exim
>
> but I don't think that's right

Yep.  You need to reverse the order of the arguments to "ln -s"; the  
first argument should be the actual, existing file or directory.

-- 
-Chuck



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