Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, it tells me '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so is not a symbolic link', whereas, right after installing the nvidia drivers, it IS. So, what I'm wondering is whether there's any way to protect a symbolic link from being overwritten. Ordinarily, if I want to protect a file, I'll make it read- or read-and-execute-only, but a symbolic link is always 'lrwxrwxrwx' and 'chmod 555 link' just changes the permissions on the underlying file. Perhaps that will protect the link from being replaced with a file, but I'm not confident! A hack solution would be simply to rename the underlying file to the link name and make THAT unwritable, but I think that might confuse the nvidia installer.
Any suggestions will be welcome. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
