From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 16:51:23 2003 Return-Path: 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 61AD637B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (frozboz.org [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E1943F85 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:51:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from [192.168.1.32] (lan32 [192.168.1.32])h3ENbRd04618 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:37:27 -0700 From: David Smithson To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3EBFA476.8070905@comcast.net> References: <3EBFA476.8070905@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Custom Film Effects Message-Id: <1050364357.4314.81.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2- Date: 14 Apr 2003 16:52:38 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: how to hide symlink'd dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: david@customfilmeffects.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:51:23 -0000 Hi all. Long time no correspond. FreeBSD rocks and so on ... Previous to my system take-over here at work, user's blindly created ill-named files and folders. One thing that really bugs me is the liberal use of spaces in file and folder names. Though they are legal and useable in modern systems, I still don't like them. One such folder is a key access point that is referred to machine-wise in various projects. It is called "Scans In". I wanted to slowly ween users off of the "Scans In" folder, yet sustain compatibility in old projects, so I renamed "Scans In" to "Scans_In" and created a symlink to "Scans_In" called "Scans In". Now I want to make the "Scans In" folder invisible and accessible. The parent dir is shared via Samba 2.2.7a on FBSD5. Is this possible given that symlinks have no flags? If so, how do I make this work? Thanks so much for your time. -- David Smithson