From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 22:42:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300FB37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BBD43E3B for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:42:16 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 75FBEBB34; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:41:55 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: "Tortise@Paradise" , Subject: Re: Symbolic Link Creating Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:41:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <040301c23141$686d3d20$0600a8c0@P1200n> In-Reply-To: <040301c23141$686d3d20$0600a8c0@P1200n> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207220141.55160.bts@babbleon.org> 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 Monday 22 July 2002 01:34 am, tortise@paradise.net.nz wrote: | Hi | I am trying to work out how to symlink my log files from /var | to /usr/var (?/usrvar/log/) as var is full.....to create some space. | Should I copy the logs across then make the link? | How do I actually make the link? Do I make it for each file or can I do | this for the whole directory? Both Link and symlink do not seem to work, | although I can find no instructions/examples and the man seems light on | detail. man ln. I would do mkdir /usr/var mv /var/log /usr/var/log ln -s /usr/var/log /var | This is in FreeBSD Stable 4.0. | With many thanks in advance. | David Hingston MB ChB MBA | _________________________________________________________________________ | tortoise@paradise.net.nz | http://hingston.yi.org/ | http://pcmc.yi.org/ | If you seek a digitally signed response please advise. | If you received a warning on reading this e-mail, please go to | http://www.baycorpid.com/settings/email.asp?CA=healthcert to update your | settings | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message