Cannot make a symlink of a directory

Chef Infra (archive)
1

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:

2

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: link Resource [1]

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:

Links:

[1] link Resource

3

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 tensibai@iabis.net 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: link Resource

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: