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Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks



Also sprach Anthony Campbell (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 03:56:28PM +0100):
> Never do this!
> 
> I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do!
> 
> Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know
> how long it will take to get things back working; only just restored ppp. Possibly a new
> installation will be required? 

Now that we have that out of the way, there exists an alternative that I
believe works quite well:

	symlinks

I don't know how this package came to be on my system; but, it is
limited to this program, and appears to work.   I just tested it out,
and everything appears to function as expected, including test mode that
shows what it will do -- if you let it ;>

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