What is a 'circular link'?
This bug report shows an error message at installation time, about a
circular link. What does this mean and what might be causing it?
(The package installs OK for me; I can't reproduce the problem.)
------- Forwarded Message
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:12:21 -0500
From: luke.chao@hwcn.org
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#17261: postgresql: /etc/pg_hba.conf is a circular link
Package: postgresql
Version: 6.2.1-9
When installing postgresql, I get this message:
dpkg: postgresql: warning - config file `/etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf' is a
circular link (= `/etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf')
All PostgreSQL utilities refuse to run like this. To fix the problem
I reinstalled the package and mv /etc/pg_hba.conf.dpkg-new /etc/pg_hba.conf ;
chown postgres.postgres /etc/pg_hba.conf
- -- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux xekomatic 2.1.78 #2 Mon Jan 5 22:08:05 EST 1998 i586 unkn
own
Versions of the packages postgresql depends on:
libc6 Version: 2.0.6-2
libpgsql Version: 6.2.1-9
libreadlineg2 Version: 2.1-7
ncurses3.4 Version: 1.9.9g-5
libpgsql Version: 6.2.1-9
- --- Begin /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init (modified conffile)
POSTGRES_HOME=`grep '^postgres:' /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $6}'`
if [ -z "$POSTGRES_HOME" ]
then
POSTGRES_HOME=/var/lib/postgresql
fi
PGDATESTYLE=American
- --- End /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init
- --- Begin /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
- --- End /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf
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