[Dxspider-support] ubuntu 11.04 server installation assistance

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> On 14/07/11 11:54, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>> The normal installation method is to create the sysop user with its standard home directory of /home/sysop and running the git installation from that directory, creating a spider subdirectory and symbolically linking that to /sysop.  This avoids the issue of trying to install in a non-empty directory.
>> 
> 
> The deliberate error (just to check that I'm still paying attention, I'm sure :-) is that /home/sysop/spider is linked to /spider, not /sysop.
> 
> As in: ln -s /home/sysop/spider /
> 
> Dirk

Fortunately that one wouldn't work, since / is already existent and a symlink cannot overwrite it.. 

I should have known better than to compose an email message at ~4 a.m.  :^)

ln -s /home/sysop/spider /spider

Bob