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From: Markus R. Keßler on 10 Apr 2010 15:59
Hi Dave,

David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:20:03 -0400, Markus R. Ke�ler <dimke.fax(a)uni.de> wrote:
>
>> This means in other words, that the ln command refuses to automatically
>> remove / overwrite existing symlinks when called with parameter '-f' or
>> '--force'.
>
>> Is this a wellknown bug?
>
> It's still true in 2010.0.
>
> The -f option will only remove existing files, not existing
> directories, or symlinks to them.
>
> The deletion of existing objects is very conservative in
> what it will try, probably intentionally.

seems to be so. It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Well, when I started working with Redhat around 10 years ago, I
was wondering what all the aliases were good for - many commands were
mapped to "-i" / "interactive mode", so that you had been asked all the
time if you were really-really sure to move or remove or do any other
operation to some file.

In the meantime this is also the case in Mandr*. That's the reason why I
always delete the whole "alias" section in the /etc/profile.d/alias* files
when I set up a new system. Otherwise you feel like working with m$...

Best regards,

Markus

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From: E on 10 Apr 2010 22:07
Markus R. Ke�ler wrote:
>
>> Nobody cares about ln(1) from the year 2004.
>
> I do.
>
>
> ...Perhaps, someday you'll change your mind.
> For instance, one of my BMWs is from 1987(!) is still running fine. So,
> why should I give it away?

How is that relevant ?
Your ln(1) from 2004 is not fine but you insist on using it.
From: David W. Hodgins on 11 Apr 2010 03:51
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:07:34 -0400, E <E(a)e.bogus.domain> wrote:

> Markus R. Keßler wrote:
>>> Nobody cares about ln(1) from the year 2004.

>> I do.

>> ...Perhaps, someday you'll change your mind.
>> For instance, one of my BMWs is from 1987(!) is still running fine. So,
>> why should I give it away?

> How is that relevant ?
> Your ln(1) from 2004 is not fine but you insist on using it.

Given that ln from 2010.0 works exactly the same way, it looks like
you don't have a clue what you are talking about, and have nothing
useful to contribute to this usenet newsgroup.

Added to /etc/leafnode/filters ...
NNTP-Posting-Host.* 0a4fd868\.news\.astraweb\.com
on my system. Bye, Bye.

Dave Hodgins

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From: David W. Hodgins on 11 Apr 2010 04:00
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:51:07 -0400, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

> Added to /etc/leafnode/filters ...
> NNTP-Posting-Host.* 0a4fd868\.news\.astraweb\.com
> on my system. Bye, Bye.

Sorry, for others choosing to do the same, I missed the
leading ^ in my copy/paste, from the editor. The correct
line to add is ...

^NNTP-Posting-Host.* 0a4fd868\.news\.astraweb\.com

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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