Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:30:20 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ln -s in FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <44BD52EC.601@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20060718.132923.24612.361057@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060718.132923.24612.361057@webmail39.nyc.untd.com>
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gs_stoller@juno.com wrote:
> 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 ?
No:
# uname -a
FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Sat May
27 07:15:18 CDT 2006
root@archangel.daleco.biz:/usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386
# sudo mkdir -p /var/homes/me
# pwd
/usr/home/kadmin
# ln -s /var/homes/me var
# ls -l var
lrwxr-xr-x 1 kadmin wheel 13 Jul 18 16:20 var@ -> /var/homes/me
What shell are you using? Or, did you do this from some
other program? Can you show the actual output? You've given
a very descriptive message right up to "A subdirectory named var";
ln(1) does not create subdirectories.
Kevin Kinsey
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