Bug#135004: marked as done (general: cyclic symlink under /etc/X11 prevents backups)
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From: Anton Ivanov <ai1@ipaccess.com>
Subject: general: cyclic symlink under /etc/X11 prevents backups
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Package: general
Version: 20020221
Severity: wishlist
/etc/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults is symlinked to /etc/X11/app-defaults
producing a syclic symlink.
This prevents backups with veritas backup-exec. Possibly other backup
software and software that tries to traverse dirs can be affected as
well (can't test).
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Subject: Re: Bug#135004: general: cyclic symlink under /etc/X11 prevents
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Anton Ivanov wrote:
> Package: general
> Version: 20020221
> Severity: wishlist
>
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults is symlinked to /etc/X11/app-defaults
> producing a syclic symlink.
Having the circular symlink is bad. But, there is also /etc/apache/conf -> .
> This prevents backups with veritas backup-exec. Possibly other backup
> software and software that tries to traverse dirs can be affected as
> well (can't test).
Use a backup program that understands symlinks. Anything else on a unix
operating system will not work.
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