Sym Files

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Luke,

While you are at it, what exactly is the difference between a
hard link and a soft link?

Thanks,
Chuck



On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Luke Davis wrote:

> They are not a way of concatinating directories.  They are a way of having
> a file exist in one place, and having another, sort of virtual file,
> exist in another place, that references the original file.  That is called
> a link.  There are hard links, and sym links.
>
> For example:
>
> Say you created:
>
> /var/www/1.txt
>
> Now, for convenience, you want that same file to appear in your home
> directory.  You could just copy it, but then changes to one, would not
> take effect in the other.  So instead, you create a link:
>
> ln -s /var/www/1.txt ~/myfile.txt
>
> Let us also say, that a user called John, wanted the same file, only
> called "anotherfile.txt", in his home directory:
>
> ln -s /var/www/1.txt ~john/otherfile.txt
>
> Now, every time you access myfile.txt, or otherfile.txt, you are actually
> accessing 1.txt.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luke
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:
>
> > While trying to configure Mailman it gave me a choice.  Add a line to a
> > configuration file or create a symlink in var/www  I'd rather create a
> > symlink in /var/www, but I don't know how to create a symlink.  I think
> > symlinks are a way of concatenating directories.  How do I create a symlink?
> >
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