Exceeded limit of symlinks on Xubuntu Dapper

[Tommy Trussell]

On 10/3/06, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/10/06, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to play around with a CMS called Typo3. One of the things
> > about Typo3 is it has TONS of symlinks. I had tried and failed to get
> > it completely working on a shared (commercial) host account SO I
> > thought I would try the nice Debian packages in Ubuntu.
> >
>
> Can you remove the offending symlink (which seems to link to itself, or to
> another symlink which points back to he orignal!)

I already removed it, and then I gave up and removed the packages too,
but they're easy to reinstall....

> Also, explain how you are trying to create this symlink - quite often the
> process of explaining your problem in depth switches on a light and you
> realise where you were going wrong before you finish the post...

You are right -- I just played around with the command on another
system and I originally had the ln syntax backwards. For some reason I
was consistently using the ln command in the wrong order. Here's an
example where I did it RIGHT:

> twt at pbg3:~/testit $
> twt at pbg3:~/testit $ mkdir this_dir
> twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ls
> this_dir
> twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ln -s this_dir link_this_dir
> twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ls
> link_this_dir  this_dir
> twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ls -la
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x   3 twt twt 4096 2006-10-03 09:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x  74 twt twt 4096 2006-10-03 09:30 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 twt twt    8 2006-10-03 09:35 link_this_dir -> this_dir
> drwxr-xr-x   2 twt twt 4096 2006-10-03 09:34 this_dir
> twt at pbg3:~/testit $

Thank you for the lesson -- now I'm going to try the install again and
I'll watch the synaptic error more closely (or maybe I'll use apt-get
so I can just capture it).