Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:17:25 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symbolic links Message-ID: <20000322231724.J21029@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000323063640.24326.qmail@hotmail.com>; from jmd526@hotmail.com on Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 01:36:40AM -0500 References: <20000323063640.24326.qmail@hotmail.com>
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* John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com> [000322 23:00] wrote: > Hi: > Can someone tell me how long a symbolic link lasts? Do these need to be > maintained in any way? Are there any 'gotchas' in using them? the only 'gotcha' is that if you remove the target file you'll get "file not found" errors if you access the symlink, but I don't know of any other way to handle that. :) > I just did a symbolic link to place /var under /usr (as described in the > book: The Complete FreeBSD. Now I get the entry var@ when I enter the > command ls -F. I guess var@ tells me that there is symbolic link. I'm not sure, check the ls manpage. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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