Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)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