Re: ln -s example

2012-09-20 Thread Ian Darwin
On 12-09-20 8:34 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: This is very helpful. Usually in OpenBSD, you create a symbolic link /var/www which has limited space and have it point to /home/www where actual data is stored and which has more space. This particular example could be Create a symbolic link named /var

Re: ln -s example

2012-09-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> > shouldn't this order be flipped? >> > >> >> the example does what its description says. why do you think it should >> be reversed? > > because people are often confused by symlinks? I always tell the > confused: the order is the same as cp(1): the first argument needs to > exits, the second on

Re: ln -s example

2012-09-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:07:01AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:44:29PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > shouldn't this order be flipped? > > > > the example does what its description says. why do you think it should > be reversed? because people are often confused b

Re: ln -s example

2012-09-19 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:44:29PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > shouldn't this order be flipped? > the example does what its description says. why do you think it should be reversed? jmc > Index: ln.1 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/bi

Re: ln -s example

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Amit Kulkarni [amitk...@gmail.com] wrote: > shouldn't this order be flipped? > If you wanted a link in /var/www/www back to /home/www, then yes, it should be flipped. > Index: ln.1 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ln/ln.1,v > retriev

ln -s example

2012-09-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
shouldn't this order be flipped? Index: ln.1 === RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ln/ln.1,v retrieving revision 1.29 diff -u -p -r1.29 ln.1 --- ln.12 Mar 2011 07:47:21 - 1.29 +++ ln.119 Sep 2012 23:27:04 - @@ -130,