Date: 04 Oct 2001 21:01:01 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: none Message-ID: <xzphetfb576.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20011004204912.A629@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20011004204912.A629@lpt.ens.fr>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes: > What does the middle line accomplish? It only seems to give > ln: /etc/malloc.conf: No such file or directory > which makes sense, since `/usr/games/fortune` will hardly ever > give you a file reference which actually exists. 'ln -s' doesn't care if the file exists. It didn't work for you because I forgot to wrap `/usr/games/fortune` in double quotes: des@des ~% ln -s "`/usr/games/fortune`" foo des@des ~% ll foo lrwxr-xr-x 1 des des 161 Oct 4 20:58 foo@ -> "No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in that kind of?paper."???-- Mike Royko on the Chicago Sun-Times after it was??? taken over by Rupert Murdoch DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzphetfb576.fsf>