Your tip certainly helped me, Michael, and actually your example _made_ me change to /backup/ instead og ./backup, since the old directory path was painfully long...
Thank you for helping me. ;-Peter -----Original Message----- From: Michael Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15. maj 2002 03:12 To: Bernhard R. Erdmann Cc: Peter Normann; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Following symlinks >>>>> "Bernhard" == Bernhard R Erdmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> reference the files as: >> >> /.backup/whatever/. >> >> The trailing /. will force the symlink to get dereferenced. Bernhard> Didn't you mean ./backup/whatever/.? I read that he had created the symlinks in /.backup/, but ... whatever. ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another NetBSD/notebook using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [
