From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 7 22:29:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-80.fwi.com [209.84.172.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F101532F for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 22:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us [10.23.42.2]) by catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00269; Sat, 8 May 1999 00:28:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA29799; Sat, 8 May 1999 00:29:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) To: David Abdemoulaie Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linking directories References: <3733B63F.F9D72C59@vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 08 May 1999 00:29:43 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: David Abdemoulaie's message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 23:57:51 -0400" Message-ID: <86hfponn7c.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Abdemoulaie writes: > How do I make a link to a directory? I have tried using ln but it only > seems to be able to link files man 1 ln Hard links aren't normally possible, but symbolic links (ln -s) work fine. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message