Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:11:55 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: moving /tmp to /var/tmp caused network trouble Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9903241208160.8454-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB9@site2s1>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> Maybe I'm just totally confused. But I thought "." was the current
> directory, which in this case was the root dir "/". Or am I missing
> something here?
> -Chris
>
Don't use relative pathnames when creating symlinks, unless you really,
really mean for the symlink to be expanded as a relative pathname. If you
want /tmp to be a symlink pointing explicitly to /var/tmp, then do:
ln -s /var/tmp /tmp
Cheers,
Mick
The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com
Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral
Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji
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