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Ramb0

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Registered: 2019-01-04

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[SOLVED] lightdm conf symlinks

Dear arch lovers,
I am trying to keep my config files in a personal repository, including config files living outside my /home/$USER
For lightdm I want to keep /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf in my repo and replace them with symlinks in their original location.
Unfortunately it does not work even with those config files having root permissions at the end-side of the symlink in my repository.
- Why is it not working?
- Is there something wrong with doing that?
Many thanks
Phil

Last edited by Ramb0 (2020-06-14 03:31:07)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] lightdm conf symlinks

Is your repo on a different partition that /etc?  If so, that is most likely the problem.

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Ramb0

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Re: [SOLVED] lightdm conf symlinks

It is on a different partition indeed!
What s the best way to go about it?

Last edited by Ramb0 (2020-06-14 02:31:33)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] lightdm conf symlinks

Not having symlinks across partitions is the real solution as there are countless ways it could go wrong.  But if you are set on doing it, you'll have to identify which of the many possible failures is actually happening.  And for that we'd need logs or error messages or something other than "does not work."

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Ramb0

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Re: [SOLVED] lightdm conf symlinks

Thank you @Inspector\ Parrot . I could deploy my repo on the same partition instead.
All the best