On 05/03/2011 04:41 AM, Baho Utot wrote: > still working on kdm so I don't have an answer as of now. > > man ln gives > <snip> > -n, --no-dereference > treat destination that is a symlink to a directory as if it were > a normal file That was why I questioned adding the 'n'. The $_prefix/bin/startkde file will never be a symlink which made it a bit confusing to see the 'ln -snf'... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.