# Failure on symlink?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/failure-on-symlink/85707>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [February 15, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/failure-on-symlink/85707 "2007-02-15T18:12:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![s.ross](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@s.ross](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/s.ross)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/failure-on-symlink/85707/1 "2007-02-15T18:12:06Z")

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I’m deploying as root and for some reason I’m getting a failure in the  
symlink part of the task. I have zero custom recipes. All that’s changed  
in the deploy.rb is the server name and svn repo.

Any thoughts about why this might be failing?

Thanks

- executing task set\_permissions
- executing “chmod -R g+w  
/var/www/rails/greatwhite/releases/20070215170750”  
servers: [“[hammerhead.com](http://hammerhead.com)”]  
[[hammerhead.com](http://hammerhead.com)] executing command  
command finished
- executing “rm -rf  
/var/www/rails/greatwhite/releases/20070215170750/log  
/var/www/rails/greatwhite/releases/20070215170750/public/system &&\n  
ln -nfs /var/www/rails/greatwhite/shared/log  
/var/www/rails/greatwhite/releases/20070215170750/log &&\n ln -nfs  
/var/www/rails/greatwhite/shared/system  
/var/www/rails/greatwhite/releases/20070215170750/public/system”  
servers: [“[hammerhead.com](http://hammerhead.com)”]  
[[hammerhead.com](http://hammerhead.com)] executing command  
\*\* [out :: [hammerhead.com](http://hammerhead.com)] ln:  
\*\* [out :: [hammerhead.com](http://hammerhead.com)] creating symbolic link  
`/var/www/rails/greatwhite/releases/20070215170750/public/system' to `/var/www/rails/greatwhite/shared/system’  
\*\* [out :: [hammerhead.com](http://hammerhead.com)] : No such file or directory  
command finished  
\*\*\* [set\_permissions] transaction: rollback

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**Author:** ![s.ross](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@s.ross](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/s.ross)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/failure-on-symlink/85707/2 "2007-02-16T16:28:17Z")

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When you create the symlink, use the full path from the root.

On Feb 15, 10:12 am, “s.ross” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)