Sym Files

[Luke Davis]

I never did know that.  I have an educated guess that has served me well,
but I will let someone with exact information answer this.

Luke
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> 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?
> > >
> > >  Rejean Proulx
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