why are there 2 Xvesa binaries?

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: why are there 2 Xvesa binaries?
started by: clacker

Posted by clacker on Oct. 24 2005,20:38

Why are there 2 Xvesa binaries in DSL? One is at /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa and the other is /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa. Are both required? .xserverrc points to /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa.

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 25 2005,00:35

/usr/bin/X11 is probably a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin

Posted by roberts on Oct. 25 2005,04:50

Not a symlink but a hard link.
Think of it as two different doors to the same place.
Doing an ls -i will show that they point to the same i-node.

Posted by clacker on Oct. 25 2005,14:55

thanks, that makes sense. I didn't see why we needed two, but there really is only one with the second being a link to the first.