Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:39:51 -0400 From: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ln -s in FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <3ee9ca710607181339v5d684eefnab373b0b93345bf4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060718.132923.24612.361057@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060718.132923.24612.361057@webmail39.nyc.untd.com>
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If you typed ls -l var, that would display the contents of the var directory. I think what you want is (while in your home) ls -l | grep var On 7/18/06, gs_stoller@juno.com <gs_stoller@juno.com> wrote: > In FreeBSD 6.1 , there was created a directory named /var . > I created a subdirectory in it named homes , and in that more > subdirectories, one per user in /home . > As a plain user , I tried to create (while in my home directory) > a subdirectory named var by typing > ln -s /var/homes/me var > Then I checked it by typing 'ls -l var' and got > /compat/linux/var > as the destination of the link. What is happening? Is this a bug in > FreeBSD 6.1 ? > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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