Eric...

Although I consider the lack of an option not to follow symbolic links and 
archive
links as links to be an ADSM shortcoming if not a bug, you may also want to
question why you have that particular link.  A bin directory should only contain
executables and scripts and not recursive links such as that one.

I've seen scripts that do something like:
ln -s "$source" target
without checking whether $source is defined or non-zero length.  By surrounding 
it
with quotes, the script runs the following in such cases:
ln -s "" target
which creates a link to the current directory like you xview link (instead of
trying:
ln -s $source target
which would result in:
ln -s target
which would error out with ln complaining about only one argument).

I suspect some installation script went awry in your case.  You probably should 
be
able to remove said link.

Cheers...
Bruce

r oxbrow wrote:

> Eric,
>         Currently there is no way to stop ADSM from following the
>         symbolic link in archive mode.  I'm hoping the next PTF release
>         will contain a flag to stop this..
>
>         An alternative to archiving maybe to export the data from the
>         tape library.
>
>         -richard-
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:43:33PM +0200, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
> > Hi ADSM-ers!
> > I have posted this question before, but I haven't received any reply, so
> > I'll give it another try.
> >
> > I have the following problem with the ADSM Sun Solaris client:
> > ADSM archives go into a recursive loop when archiving several directories
> > containing softlinks.
> > Test case: the directory /usr/X/bin contains a soft link the link looks like
> > this:
> >
> > $pwd
> > /usr/X/bin
> > $ ls -la xview
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           1 Jan  7 14:12 xview -> .
> >
> > When ADSM runs into this it keeps on going and going down and down.
> > The links are Sun standard, apparently to be compatible with earlier
> > releases
> > of Sun Solaris OS. There are more of such softlinks in the OS, same thing
> > occurs.
> >
> > We run archives and would appreciate it if we could stop ADSM from following
> > the links in archive mode.
> >
> > Releases:
> > Server: AIX 3.1.2.20
> > Sun client 3.1.0.6, Solaris 2.6
> >
> > Kindest regards,
> > Eric van Loon
> > KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

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