From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 23:11:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx3out.umbc.edu (mx3out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DBB37B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:11:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu) Received: from irix1.gl.umbc.edu (gmiddl1@irix1.gl.umbc.edu [130.85.60.8]) by mx3out.umbc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA04335; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:11:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:11:33 -0500 From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: Tony Landells Cc: Subject: Re: linking directories In-Reply-To: <200103080558.QAA21944@tungsten.austclear.com.au> 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 thanks i found my answer at the freebsddiary after sending out my plea for help! it said the samething you told me! Thanks a million Jason On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Tony Landells wrote: > > i have racked my brains out over this...i want to make a link to a > > directory and i don't know how to do it. > > > > i have read the link manpage and i am not getting it. > > > > i want to make a link to /usr/local/www/ What is the syntax to go about > > doing this? > > > > Am i using the right command (ln,link)? > > You want to use a symbolic link. Assuming you want to be able to refer > to /usr/local/www as, say, /www you would use: > > ln -s /usr/local/www /www > > Note that a symbolic link just makes an entry that means "if they type > the second name, substitute the first name" so if you make a typo, for > example, ln won't complain. Make sure you test what you do. > > Cheers, > Tony > -- > Tony Landells > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement: The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message