From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jan 9 10:17:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23207 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23202 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-109-222.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.109.222]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA12611; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:15:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36979C7F.2C771900@aei.ca> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:14:24 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charlie Root CC: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find a error in The FreeBSD User Guide (i guess) References: <199901091100.TAA00492@aew.k2.dorm.ncku.edu.tw> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Charlie Root wrote: > > $ pwd > /home/elvis > $ ls -l > drwxr-xr-x 3 elvis wheel 512 28 nov 18:49 mydir > -rw-r--r-- 1 elvis wheel 60 26 nov 19:50 notes > $ ls -l mydir > drwxr-xr-x 2 elvis elvis 512 28 nov 18:49 dir > $ ln -s mydir/dir dir > $ ls -l > lrwxrwxrwx 1 elvis elvis 9 28 nov 18:56 dir -> mydir/dir > > because dir is a directory > so it may changed as follows:? > lrwxrwxrwx 1 elvis elvis 9 28 nov 18:56 dir -> mydir/dir(/)? Hi You should not be has root when you e-mail something(when you do anything..). Charlie Root is the name of the root user. It is not an error, because if you do the command ls -l on a directory where there is a symbolic link, you won't have that (/) at the end. Try it Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] [LowRent.Org is down...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message