Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:17:55 -0500 From: "SweeTLeaF" <SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: help with ln "linking" Please! Message-ID: <1034061475.af0b0cc0SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com>
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Well, i tried that but i still get the same. when i look into the tmp dir. = its empty but /usr/root/desktop is not; it has other dirs. such as apps, = misc, mp3 etc.. and i though that since these were sys linked i should be= able to see the contents of /usr/root/desktop. I should be able to ls th= e tmp dir on my desktop and see the dirs in /usr/root/desktop such as the= app and mp3 folder....correct? Now if i go into the /usr/root/desktop di= r. i see along with the other dirs. a tmp dir., but when i ls this tmp di= r its empty and if i try to cd to it i get weird sys link errors about to= o many sys links or something.=20 again thanks On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 00:16, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, SweeTLeaF wrote: > > I am in the /usr/root ....dir > > ln -s desktop /root/Desktop/tmp >=20 > You should be using `ln -s /root/Desktop/tmp /usr/root/desktop` >=20 > The manpage is super unclear about sourcefile and targetfile, I have said > this for years. Think of this paragraph: >=20 > SYNOPSIS > ln [-fhinsv] source_file [target_file] >=20 > Given one or two arguments, ln creates a link to an existing file > source_file. If target_file is given, the link has that name; target_fil= e > may also be a directory in which to place the link; otherwise it is place= d > in the current directory. If only the directory is specified, the link > will be made to the last component of source_file. >=20 > ... as this instead `ln -s actualfile linkfile` >=20 > > Now i was exspecting to see all the contents for /usr/root/desktop when= i viewed the /root/Desktop/tmp dir. but that did not happen. > > Now when i go to /root/Desktop/tmp ...i see the link for desktop but wh= en i do a ls desktop to try and view the files inside desktop i get nothi= ng and a cd desktop gives an sys link error...and there are more files in= desktop. I guess i am trying to mirror the two dir, so even though they = have different names and on different filesystems, i will see the same co= ntents. > > Thanks for any help. >=20 > I think you just had it backwards. > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > +1-413-403-9555 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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