That seemed to get it. Now I need to get the date set correctly. This laptop sat for a while and the clock is wrong. Thanks. Rob
-----Original Message----- From: Duane Attaway [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:55 AM To: Rob Becker Cc: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM] Re: backing up symlinks Importance: Low
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Rob Becker wrote:
I'm playing with optimizing the startup scripts on an old redhat box. In order to avoid completely monkeying things up, I would like to back up the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d directory prior to making changes. I've read
the
man pages on both cp and ln and I'm coming up short regarding backing
up
the symlinks in this directory. Is there a way to create symlinks
with
the same names that point to the same files as the original symlinks?
I
know I can do it manually, but I'd prefer to use the * wildcard to get it all done in one shot if possible. Does anyone have any ideas? Am
I
thinking about this the wrong way? Please enlighten me if I am
missing
an obvious solution. Thanks. Rob
I use:
cp -aR
Does that work?