[Dxspider-support] Stuck

[Bob Nielsen]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Ed wrote:

> I'm stuck and don't know the cure. I found a copy of spider in the  
> root
> directory. It gets put there when I issue the sym link command as  
> root.
> I found the how, but not the why, let alone the cure.
>
> Ubuntu 8.04
>
> Ed W3NR
>
> ######################################################################
>
>
> Well I found part of the problem, the install manual says to create  
> the sym link as root, but it doesn't. The sym link has to be  
> created via the "sudo" command. I'll get this right one of these days.
>
> I don't like do-overs.
>
> Ed
>

It should work as root if you give the complete path to both the  
source and the link.

Since using Ubuntu for the past several years, I have gotten used to  
sudo and don't really miss the root directory.  My Mac works the same  
way, so I don't need to remember that many differences when switching  
between computers.