symlink

I'm having trouble figuring out how to patch some Makefile.am files to fix the symlink paths during staging, make stage-qa displays these warnings: ====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa) Warning: Bad symlink '/var/db/glusterd/hooks/1/delete/post/S57glusterfind-delete-post' pointing to an absolute...

What are link, pipe and socket files and how to use them? and what are non-text type of files that I dont know of?

Having a tough time understanding something and can't figure out what happened. This morning an nfs share stopped working on my dev environment, it was working fine yesterday. After some head scratching, I relalized that my /home/ directory isn't a symlink to /usr/home/ anymore, it is a real...

I keep running into problems with a frozen in time ports tree under poudriere. A complete rebuild of this tree became necessary because the jail used to build it had been accidentally updated and was then incompatible with the frozen tree. The jails was wound back to the version it was...