[Scottish] How to avoid symlinks spiralling out of control?

[Colin McKinnon]

colin@wew.co.uk wrote:

> David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote:
>
>> Within /etc/apache/, there is a symlink
>> conf -> ./
>> and when sitecopy encounters this, it just keeps looping around here,
>> creating nested 'conf' directories for some reason.
>>  
>>
> For a very good reason - it is following the symlink. This looks like 
> a bit of a fudge, although I'm not sure what the problem was that this 
> is intended to fix! 

hmmm, 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2002/debian-apache-200208/msg00034.html 
suggests that it is not just you having this problem.

....and for the benefit of  Willie:

HMMM, 
HTTP://LISTS.DEBIAN.ORG/DEBIAN-APACHE/2002/DEBIAN-APACHE-200208/MSG00034.HTML 
SUGGESTS THAT IT IS NOT JUST YOU HAVING THIS PROBLEM!!

;)

Colin