[17515] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.25Tue: redhat linux 6.1 pilot test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Wed Feb 9 14:30:58 2000
Message-Id: <200002091930.OAA15649@nerd-xing.mit.edu>
To: kaou@MIT.EDU
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:27:05 EST."
<200002091927.OAA09231@w20-575-35.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:30:49 -0500
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> I did have an unsolved confusion about the arch/@sys links.
> I did the following:
>
> cd /mit/infoagents/bin
>
> and then pwd-ed in the directory.
> The output was
>
> /afs/ (etc....)/arch/linux/i386_linux2/bin
>
> and I didn't really understand how @sys worked at that point.
> could you help there?
Often, locker maintainers will put in symlinks when their binaries will
work on multiple platforms. In this case, /mit/infoagents/bin is a symlink
to arch/@sys/bin, and /mit/infoagents/arch/i386_linux22 is a symlink to
i386_linux2 (it's actually a little more complicated than that, but...)
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