From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 18 22:34:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A2F7C16A4DA for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:34:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F018A43D68 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:34:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost (monrovll-cuda1-24-53-251-44.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.251.44]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:34:00 -0400 id 00056405.44BD61D9.00004D0D Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:33:59 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" Message-Id: <20060718183359.1ad15cb7.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20060718.132923.24612.361057@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060718.132923.24612.361057@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ln -s in FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:34:05 -0000 "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 ? It looks as if you've got something weird going on with the linuxulator. * Can you check "pkg_info | grep linux" and see what you've got? * What shell are you using? Is it compiled natively for FreeBSD or did you install a Linux shell from rpm or something? * Please check "file `which ln`" to ensure it's a FreeBSD binary and not a Linux one. -- Bill Moran ZOE: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? BOOK: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.