On 07/21/2011 12:04 AM, Parveen Arora wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I need to create the symbolic link between two directories, i.e
> between a folder with the folder in /var/www/ so that I can show the
> files of folder in the browser without copying files to it.
> But I am following a problem of recursion in this.
> I am using the following command:
> sudo ln -s ~/bin/mapnik/tiles /var/www/OSMAP
> 
> but there is recursion of tiles folder such that folder 'tiles' is
> generated in recursion.
> e.g.
> parveen@linux:/var/www$cd
> tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles
> 
> parveen@linux:/var/www/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles/tiles$ls
> tiles
> 
> Can you please tell me why I am getting this problem and how to resolve it.
> 
> Thank You.
> 
> 
> 

Have you checked the tiles folder itself? It may have a symlink to (.)!
Many distributions place such a symlink in /boot
I.e., /boot/boot is a symlink to /boot/.
Infinite nesting!

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