Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
>
> Hello all.
> Would somebody care to comment on the following:
>
> [root@jld src]# ls -l
> total 12720
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jun 27 14:04 RPM
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 4 11:59 linux ->
> linux-2.2.9
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 4 11:53 linux-2.2.10
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Jul 4 11:46 linux-2.2.9
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12969457 Jul 4 11:48
> linux-2.2.9-Mandrake-tar.gz
> [root@jld src]# ln -sf linux-2.2.10 linux
> [root@jld src]# ls -l
> total 12720
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jun 27 14:04 RPM
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 4 11:59 linux ->
> linux-2.2.9
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 4 11:53 linux-2.2.10
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Jul 4 12:02 linux-2.2.9
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12969457 Jul 4 11:48
> linux-2.2.9-Mandrake-tar.gz
> [root@jld src]# .......
>
> Please note that the first ln command seems to have been ignored (linux
> still
> points linux-2.2.9,
Try "ls -l linux", you would find a synbolic link to linux-2.2.10
in the interior of the directory "linux".
ciao, Andrea