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Re: Potato Broke My X



On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:50:20AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:07:10AM -0600, Brad wrote:
> > rm /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
> > ln -s /usr/bin/blackbox /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
> 
> Isn't that backwords?

no that is correct:

[eb@socrates eb]$ ln -s /bin/bash /tmp/shell
[eb@socrates eb]$ ls -l /tmp/
total 22
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        12288 Jan 11 20:35 lost+found
lrwxrwxrwx    1 eb       eb              9 Mar  9 00:23 shell -> /bin/bash
[eb@socrates eb]$


> $  ln --help
> Usage: ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]
>   or:  ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY

yes where TARGET is /usr/bin/blah and [LINK_NAME] is /etc/alternatives/foo-bar

-- 
Ethan Benson


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