From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 11:50:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5651937B40B for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15zkKe-0001ex-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 02 Nov 2001 19:50:25 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 9417511F0; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:40:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:40:10 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011102204010.B6967@raggedclown.net> References: <3671328565.20011102143931@pisem.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from jan@caustic.org on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:43:08AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:43:08AM -0800, f.johan.beisser wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, spectre wrote: > > > Hello > > I have a problem... > > When I run 'ln' command it answers > > 'Operation not supported' > > what I need to do? > > the "ln" command summery is available via the man pages. please do > yourself a favour, and read up on them for a bit. > > so, going onward: > > what were you trying to do? > > ln is used for creating links in the filesystem, rather handy when you > need to point a file to another file. very useful, on many levels. > > if you're getting "operation not supported" errors, you have to be doing > something very odd. could you provide the exact command you attempted? > > > P.S. I'm root > > that's nice. > > -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ > http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org > "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. > "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" ----->guillotine Named after the man who invented it as a "humane" form of execution. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message