From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 21:45: 8 2002 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 E5DDE37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FD743E86 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:45:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com) Received: from SweeTLeaF [12.239.9.75] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 23:45:10 -0500 Subject: help with ln "linking" Please! From: "SweeTLeaF" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 23:45:10 -0500 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: SweeTLeaF MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1034052310.551709c0SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am in the /usr/root ....dir ln -s desktop /root/Desktop/tmp Now i was exspecting to see all the contents for /usr/root/desktop when i v= iewed 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 when i= do a ls desktop to try and view the files inside desktop i get nothing a= nd a cd desktop gives an sys link error...and there are more files in des= ktop. 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 conten= ts. Thanks for any help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message