Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:19:45 -0800 (PST) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: jmd526@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symbolic links Message-ID: <200003230919.BAA01534@arthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000323063640.24326.qmail@hotmail.com> (jmd526@hotmail.com)
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> From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> > > 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? They don't expire. Other than making sure you update the link if you move the file, the only "gotcha" I can think of is making sure Apache (web server) knows to follow symlinks if it needs (and if you want it) to. > 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. Yep. The @ means link. If you wanna see the contents of the directory, include the trailing slash. ls -f /var/ Probably wouldn't hurt to get into that habit anyway. BTW, you can alias ls to do ls -F. Using sh (and compatible), you just pop a line in ~/.profile alias ls='/bin/ls -F' Sorry if you already knew that. > Thanks, > John -- Derrick Baumer bduk@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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