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Date:      Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:35:23 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SYMLINK
Message-ID:  <2DF59E3E-774A-47DB-AACC-58A97095567C@mac.com>
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On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working,  
> how can I
> verify a symlink?

Most people use "ls -l" to see where the link is pointing; software  
generally uses lstat(2).

> And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world.

Very good.  Welcome...

-- 
-Chuck




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