[KLUG Members] Undoing SUSE 10.0 symbolic links

[Eric Beversluis]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:14 -0400, Peter Bart wrote:
> Hello All,
> 	One of the things that an online help page told me to do to help
> with printer setup was to create the following symbolic links. It
> also told me to remove them when I was done. The first one I'm
> assuming didn't take because of ??? I'm not so sure about the
> second one.
> 
> > linux:~ # ln -s /etc/init.d/cups /etc/init.d/lpd
> > linux:~ #  ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/lpd
> > ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/init.d/lpd' to `/etc/init.d/cupsys': File exists
> > linux:~ # cd /home/peter/downloads
> 
> 	I then issued the rm command and got this.
> 
> > linux:~ # rm /etc/init.d/cups /etc/init.d/lpd
> > rm: cannot remove `/etc/init.d/cups': No such file or directory
> > rm: cannot remove `/etc/init.d/lpd': No such file or directory
> > linux:~ # rm /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/lpd
> > rm: cannot remove `/etc/init.d/cupsys': No such file or directory
> > rm: cannot remove `/etc/init.d/lpd': No such file or directory
> > linux:~ #     
> 
> 
> 
> I can't seem to find much about removing links either in the
> books I bought or online. Yes, Novell "support" is a joke. The
> one reference I can find; in the Linux for dummies book
> (fitting); is that these kinds of links are roughly the same as a
> shortcut in MS. So it wouldn't be the worst thing if it stays
> there but it would be nice to clean it up. Based on the last
> output can I assume that the links were never made then? Neither
> file seems to exist in my filesystem, could have been used and
> removed during the successful installation of my CUPS printer?
> Peter
> 
I think I remember having to ignore that business about deleting the
symbolic link. 

EB

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