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Subject: ln -s  in   FreeBSD 6.1 
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	In  FreeBSD 6.1 , there was created a directory named  /var .
I created a subdirectory in it named  homes , and in that more
subdirectories, one per user in  /home .
	As a plain user , I tried to create (while in my home directory) =

a subdirectory named  var  by typing =

		ln -s  /var/homes/me  var
	Then I checked it by typing 'ls -l  var' and got
		/compat/linux/var
as the destination of the link.  What is happening?  Is this a bug in =

 FreeBSD 6.1 ?