Re: Need to fix one more glitch in upgrade to -10.2

Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> writes:

> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Tim Cross wrote:
>
>>> # ll /usr/bin/postgres
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Feb 17 09:30 /usr/bin/postgres -> ../lib/postgresql/10.2/bin/postgres*
>
>> Try doing an 'll' on the second part of that output i.e.
>> ll /usr//lib/postgresql/10.2/bin/postgres*
>
>    See my message, repeated above.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich

Your ll command is only showing what the symbolic link is pointing to,
not the status of the thing it points to. It is possible for the target
of a symbolic link to be changed, deleted etc (a dangling sym link). My
point was to verify the target and it's permissions, not just the  sym
link itself.

Tim


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Tim Cross