On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Laemmerhirt, Kai wrote:
in the already existing directory /srv/backup/home I wanted to create a
link for the user eddi to eddis home directory for data backup
reasons. In order not to change into the target directory I used the
following command:
ln -sf /home/eddi /srv/backup/home/eddi
Do you observe that running this command created two symlinks?
/srv/backup/home/eddi -> /home/eddi
/home/eddi/eddi -> /home/eddi
That's unusual; please try re-running the command with the --verbose
flag, and report the results here. The "-f" flag shouldn't have any
effect unless the link(s) already exist.
Cheers,
Phil
