From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 0:21:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snarf.osdn.com (snarf.osdn.com [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D0737B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snarf.osdn.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f288LAd87483; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:21:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F57D162; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:21:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:21:01 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linking directories Message-ID: <20010308032100.A2169@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:36:35AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 at 00:36:35 -0500, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > i have racked my brains out over this...i want to make a link to a > directory and i don't know how to do it. > > i have read the link manpage and i am not getting it. > > i want to make a link to /usr/local/www/ What is the syntax to go > about doing this? > > Am i using the right command (ln,link)? From the ln(1) man page... ln [options] source_file target_file So, ln -fs /usr/local/www /path/to/link - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message