> I was thinging about daemons and system-type stuff. > > One possible problem with linking from one's home directory is that > home directories are often on different filesystems than /usr/bin (or > wherever python is). Using a symlink doesn't work, the process name > still ends up as python2.6 (or whatever the real binary is called).
Try a hardlink instead of symlink? It seems to work for me. Ramit Ramit Prasad | JPMorgan Chase Investment Bank | Currencies Technology 712 Main Street | Houston, TX 77002 work phone: 713 - 216 - 5423 -- This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures/email. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list