Re: Soft links not being replaced by hard links (2.0.6)

[Mark . Burgess]

This seems to work ok for me in 2.1.0

M

On 26 Jun, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> 
> I have a soft link (/etc/rc3.d/S99cfengine, points to 
> /etc/init.d/cfengine) that I wish to replace with a hard link in order 
> to be more Sun-ish.  So, under links: I put a line like this:
> 
> 
> /etc/rc3.d/S99cfengine        ->! /etc/init.d/cfengine type=hard
> 
> 
> I am expecting that the '!' will cause cfengine to wipe out the old soft 
> link and replace it with a hard link.  Instead, I get:
> 
> cfengine:moops: Hard link (/etc/rc3.d/S99cfengine->/etc/init.d/cfengine) 
> exists and is okay.
> 
> It would appear that cfengine somehow thinks this is a hard link and not 
> a soft one pointing at the same target.
> 
> 
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