Re: [CentOS] Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/5/11, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: The strange behaviour here is when listing the parent directory (..). In this case, ls .. is listing the contents of Mail/ directory - not /home/eric. In the

Re: [CentOS] Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-05 Thread Charles Polisher
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 06:52:47AM -0300, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/5/11, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: The strange behaviour here is when listing the parent directory (..). In this case, ls .. is

[CentOS] Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-04 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm running CentOS 5 and running into a strange situation with symbolic links that I have never seen or noticed before. If I create the following symbolic link: [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ pwd /home/eric [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ls Mail draft inbox queue sent trash [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ln -s

Re: [CentOS] Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-04 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/5/11, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: The strange behaviour here is when listing the parent directory (..). In this case, ls .. is listing the contents of Mail/ directory - not /home/eric. In the past, I always recall being able to use the parent identified (..) to move up one level