Help with symlink

[spiky001]

I have to have libc.so.6 in lib, I found libc.so.6 in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 I hope I created a correct symlink to lib

ln -n /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6

. The file libc.so.6 now shows in red /lib/libc.so.6 I hope this is correct for a symlinked file? Also how do you remove the symlink just incase

I also created symlink as root

[matt_symes]

Hi

I have to have libc.so.6 in lib, I found libc.so.6 in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 I hope I created a correct symlink to lib

ln -n /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6

. The file libc.so.6 now shows in red /lib/libc.so.6 I hope this is correct for a symlinked file?

I use -s for as symlinked file.

ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6

That is fine for a symlink. That will create a symlink in /lib/libc.so.6 that points to /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
You can test this with

readlink -f /lib/libc.so.6

Also how do you remove the symlink just incase

Delete it using rm.

Kind regards

[spiky001]

Ok as i created the link as root due to permissions Can I chmod it to the user? if so how?

[matt_symes]

Hi

Just use the standard chown with the -h switch so the symlink does not get dereferenced.

sudo chown -h user:user /path/to/symlink

Kind regards

[spiky001]

Ok that changed the symlink to the user thks, But my script fails,here . It fails with this

/home/spiky/bin/version-check.sh: line 22: /lib/libc.so.6: No such file or directory

. I cant really chown lib directory

[matt_symes]

Hi

Open a terminal and type

ls -l /lib/libc.*

Post the results back here.

Can you also post your script ?

Kind regards

[spiky001]

lrwxrwxrwx 2 spiky spiky 12 2011-06-19 16:11 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.13.so

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/.../hostreqs.html

[matt_symes]

Hi

LFS eh ? I hope you have plenty of coffee

lrwxrwxrwx 2 spiky spiky 12 2011-06-19 16:11 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.13.so

Did you create the link with the -n switch or the -s switch ?

ie ln -n or ln -s ?

Looks like you did not use the -s option. Try it with that.
Here is mine

matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ ls -l /lib/libc.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2011-05-24 13:59 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.11.1.so
matthew@matthew-laptop:~$

My link is owned by root though.

Kind regards

[spiky001]

I used the n switch, When i run the script I get the failure /lib/libc.so.6: No such file or directory

[matt_symes]

Hi

When i run the script I get the failure /lib/libc.so.6: No such file or directory

I don't quite get that. I assume it's the -n switch but..

What do you get if you open a terminal and type

/lib/libc.so.6 --version

and

readlink -f /lib/libc.so.6

Kind regards