symbolic link

[bitou]

hi everybody,
any help concerning this issue.
i have create a symbolic link using this command:
ln -s test database_test
and it is created normally, but after a few minutes or server restarted the symbolic link is disappeared.
any idea....
remark: test is a raw device

[Dennis Handly]

Somebody must be removing it?

>remark: test is a raw device

That shouldn't matter but it would be helpful if you could list the symlink's actual path and values.

[P Arumugavel]

Change the path of destination file and try. Check any script does this.
Raw device is not an issue.

Rgds...

[P Muralidhar Kini]

Hi bitou,

>> and it is created normally, but after a few minutes or server
>> restarted the symbolic link is disappeared.
This should not happen. The link file should exist.
May be something else is going on which is deleting the link file.

Regards,
Murali

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

where did you create the link /tmp?
At restart you can configure to delete /tmp contents, also check for a cron job doing this.

V.

Which os?

[Ismail Azad]

Hi,

>
but after a few minutes or server restarted the symbolic link is disappeared.

Hmmm but after a few minutes... Guess that's the clue to this troubleshooting loop. And I think the forumers have rightly mentioned because of the "after a few minutes" comment that it indeed should be a cron job or a script that runs. Posting output of crontab might help.....

Regards
Ismail Azad