[oat]

I got the following error messages, a lot of them, while copying the OpenFOAM tutorials files to my local working directory:

[ofuser@default OpenFOAM_tut]$ cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS ./
cp: cannot create symbolic link `./tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/straightDuctImplicit/system/backgroundMeshDecomposition/fvSchemes': Protocol error
cp: cannot create symbolic link `./tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/straightDuctImplicit/system/backgroundMeshDecomposition/fvSolution': Protocol error

May I ask:
1. why I had these errors?
2. Does it matter? and
3. How to solve the problem if these errors are critical?

Thank you!

[alexeym]

Hi,

1. Though your post lacks information, I guess, the problem is with host file system, it does not support symbolic links (for example, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...protocol-error).

2. It depends. If you plan to run any of tutorials with errors.

3. http://www.ahtik.com/blog/fixing-you...symlink-error/

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