Re: The Way the Cookies Crumble.

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> Tesla Coil said:
> > In a letter to the July 1998 *Linux Journal* M. Leo Cooper suggested
> > this "most elegant method" of dealing with sites that make cookie
> > acceptance a condition of access:
> > ln -s ~/.netscape/cookies /dev/null
> > 
> > My diabolical laughter was interrupted by return of the message:
> > ln: /dev/null: file exists
> > 
> > Would somebody explain this?
> 
> That's backwards.  Try "ln -s /dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies".  (You
> might have to rm ~/.netscape/cookies first.)

Also, if you did the deed as root, do an "ls -l /dev/null".  If it reports
that it's a symbolic link, you'll need to recreate the device. 

Most likely, you're OK, but just in case...



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