problems with the ln command
Hannes Mayer
h.mayer at inode.at
Mon Jul 5 18:02:38 UTC 2004
Fons van der Beek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am having a bit of a problem with the ln command.
> If i give the command
>
> ln -s "/data/mp3/Nelly" "/datastore/alfabet/N/Nelly"
>
> Then I expect only in the directory "/datastore/alfabet/N/"
> a symboly link named "Nelly" being created.
> BUT also (!) in "/data/mp3/Nelly" a symbolic link "Nelly"
> is created and it is referenced to /data/mp3/Nelly
> (there was already a directory calles "DaDerrty.......blablabla)
>
> drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096 Jul 5 15:12 .
> drwxrwxrwx 403 apache apache 12288 Jul 4 09:58 ..
> drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 May 5 11:29 DaDerrtyVersionsTheReinven
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 5 15:12 Nelly -> /data/mp3/Nelly
>
> What am i doing wrong ?????????????????????????
Fons,
I'm not quite sure where your symlink should point to, but
the general usage is:
ln -s source target
i.e. if you have
/data/mydir
and you want a symlink of mydir in /otherdata do this:
# ln -s /data/mydir /otherdata/mydir
Cheers,
Hannes.
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