From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 19 19:49:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26137 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26101 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:49:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id EAA22925; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:43:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19981020044341.A22803@foobar.franken.de> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:43:41 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: Shawn Ramsey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/obj References: <19981019165433.30675@cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981019165433.30675@cpl.net>; from Shawn Ramsey on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:54:33PM -0700 X-Organisation: BatmanSystemDistribution X-Mission: To free the world from the Penguin Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:54:33PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Can /usr/obj be a symlink to another directory? I'd rather build to > /disk4/obj since I have a lot more room. I get a an error I did not capture > when doing a symlink?? > Symlinking (ln -s <...>) should work, you're not trying to hardlink, are you ? >From the ln(1) manpage: Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems. -- bye, logix Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message