symbolic link problem

[Marco Mohrmann]

Hello,

I installed Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle IAS on one machine. Both products need a configuration file (tnsnames.ora). I change the file for Oracle (owner oracle) and then link the file to IAS (owner ias) with the command "ln -s tnsnames.ora /ias_directory/tnsnames.ora". Before doing this, I change the umask for the user oracle to "000". The user ias can see the file as a linked file (with ls). When accessing the file with pg or more I get the error " tnsnames.ora: too many levels of symbolic links"

any idea what's going wrong?

Thanks

And have a nice weekend

Marco

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This error suggests a file that is linked to itself, or that you have a circular chain of links. I would trace the links, remove them, and start fresh using absolute paths to develop the linkages.

...JRF...

[Bruce Regittko_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes, you absolutely want to use an absolute path! The only time you can safely get away with a path not starting with / is if both the link and the target file are in the same directory.

--Bruce

[Marco Mohrmann]

Hi Bruce,

great, it's work fine

Thanks

Marco