Problems with GnuCash 2.4.7 - Snow Leopard and Lion

[prl]

On 2/09/11 15:54, angrest wrote:
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> Still unclear: why was the startup-code unable to replace the symlink? I was asked for authentication anyway, so parts of the code should have run under sufficient privileges.
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Linux (any Unix, really) won't allow you to create a symlink if a 
symlink (or any type of file, really) of that name already exists. No 
matter what privileges you have. You have to remove the symlink (or 
file) first.

Eg, in a shell script do something like:
[ -L symlinkName -o -e symlinkName ] && rm symlinkName
ln -s symlinkTarget symlinkName

Really a bit of a bug in the start-up code.

Peter