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Fondor
07-07-2001, 06:32 PM
I have SuSE 7.1 and I am trying to install openssh version 2.9. I am using the rpm of suse's site, but when i do a "rpm -Uvh openssh.rpm" I get an error. It says that "unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/SshAskpass: cpio: stat failed - Too many levels of symbolic links". What should I do to fix this. Recently i updated X to 4.1 and it made the app-defaults (above) a symbolic link. Also, why is the level of symbolic links limited? Thanks in advance.
godot
07-07-2001, 08:33 PM
why don't you just download the source and compile it?
Strike
07-07-2001, 09:14 PM
The level of symbolic links is limited so that applications don't try to infinitely recurse through circular links. Say you have directory foo which links to directory bar, which has a subdirectory that links back to foo ... well, you'll start recursing like mad if you try to descend to the "end" of the directory tree. So, the kernel puts a limit on the number of links it will follow.