DB43 sysmlink problem

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jan 3 13:25:53 PST 2007


In the last episode (Jan 03), doug at safeport.com said:
> I have installed db43-4.3.29. The install sets up symlinks to the db
> commands as:
> 
>    /usr/local/bin/db_dump-4.3@ -> db43/db_dump
> 
> As non of the symlinks work, it appears to me they should be set up as:
> 
>    /usr/local/bin/db_dump-4.3@ -> /usr/local/bin/db43/db_dump
> 
> Is this correct, or am I missing something?

The command works for me.  What error are you getting?

$ db_dump-4.3 -V
Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
$ which db_dump-4.3
/usr/local/bin/db_dump-4.3
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/db_dump-4.3
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12 Nov  8 10:55 /usr/local/bin/db_dump-4.3 -> db43/db_dump
$ 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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