From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 10:10:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB07D14CC4 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id MAA08755; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:11:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:11:55 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Christopher Michaels Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: moving /tmp to /var/tmp caused network trouble In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB9@site2s1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > Maybe I'm just totally confused. But I thought "." was the current > directory, which in this case was the root dir "/". Or am I missing > something here? > -Chris > Don't use relative pathnames when creating symlinks, unless you really, really mean for the symlink to be expanded as a relative pathname. If you want /tmp to be a symlink pointing explicitly to /var/tmp, then do: ln -s /var/tmp /tmp Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message