Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:05:58 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SYMLINK Message-ID: <20061201200558.GB11235@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <2DF59E3E-774A-47DB-AACC-58A97095567C@mac.com> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9B55DE4@www.fcimail.org> <2DF59E3E-774A-47DB-AACC-58A97095567C@mac.com>
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:35:23AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > >Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, > >how can I > >verify a symlink? > > Most people use "ls -l" to see where the link is pointing; software > generally uses lstat(2). That is the way to check, but may not convince a nervous newbie of what is happening - thus my longer proof in another post. ////jerry > > >And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. > > Very good. Welcome... > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > 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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