[chef] Re: Re: cannot make a symlink of a directory

[wolfgang < >]

Hi, tensibai

oh, god.  Thanks a lot ! It works well now.

Thanks in advance.
wolfgang


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Tensibai 
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 wrote:
> The link name is the link you want to create, the 'to' attribute is the
> source file. The error is quite clear about it, your target is an existing
> directory and so can't be replaced by a link.
>
> More details here: https://docs.chef.io/resource_link.html
>
> So try:
>
> link "/usr/local/bar" do
>   to "/usr/local/foo"
> end
>
>
>
> Le 2015-09-30 08:30, wolfgang a écrit :
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm stuck on making a symlink of a directory.
> I got this error 'Is a directory' when I make a symlink of a directory
> as the following command in my recipe.
>
> link "/usr/local/foo" do
> to "/usr/local/bar"
> end
>
> /usr/local/foo is a directory and exists.
> /usr/local/bar doesn't exist yet.
> I want to make a symlink so that it would be /usr/local/bar ->
> /usr/local/foo as a result of 'ls -l' command.
>
> Cheers,
> wolfgang
> ps) Just in case, this is the error in detail.
>
> Errno::EISDIR
> -------------
> Is a directory - /usr/local/foo
>
> Resource Declaration:
> ---------------------
> # In /var/lib/aaa/cookbooks/deploy-xyz/recipes/deploy.rb
>
> 24: link "/usr/local/foo" do
> 25:   to "/usr/local/bar"
> 26: end
> 27:
>
>
>
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