Ah, thank you David! That explains the "why" part of my question...

Well, it works now...:) Thank you much...

Josh

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Josh Hope wrote:
> 
> > I sure can...here it is:
> > 
> > [otaku@otaku.users.netset.com]% ls -l /home/x/X11R6
> > total 14
> > drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel   512 Jul 15 01:31 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Jul 15 01:40 ../
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1536 Jul 15 01:09 bin/
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Oct  6  1996 include/
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Jul 15 01:04 lib/
> > drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel   512 Jul 15 01:04 man/
> > 
> > [otaku@otaku.users.netset.com]% ls -l /usr/X11R6
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5 Jul 15 01:42 /usr/X11R6@ -> X11R6
> 
> 	Bingo - thats the problem. /usr/X11R6 is linking to 'X11R6'
> 	which is better described as 'the name X11R6 in the same
> 	directory', or 'itself' :)
> 
> 	As I believe someone else said, you need to:
> 	rm /usr/X11R6
> 	ln -s /home/x/X11R6 /usr/X11R6
> 
> 	When creating a symlink always think "if I'm in the same directory
> 	as the symlink, what would I have to type to get to where I'm
> 	symlinking"
> 
> 	:)
> 		David
> 
>