From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 22:36:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f91.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3745E37B574 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 24327 invoked by uid 0); 23 Mar 2000 06:36:40 -0000 Message-ID: <20000323063640.24326.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:36:40 PST X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: symbolic links Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:36:40 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: Can someone tell me how long a symbolic link lasts? Do these need to be maintained in any way? Are there any 'gotchas' in using them? I just did a symbolic link to place /var under /usr (as described in the book: The Complete FreeBSD. Now I get the entry var@ when I enter the command ls -F. I guess var@ tells me that there is symbolic link. Thanks, John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message