Also, what does 'essentially' mean in: "The listing in my file manager is essentially the same."
Thanks, Gj On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:45 PM Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > The point of the symbolic link is to not create it in the /var/ folder but > in /home/charles/somewhere, i.e., in your home directory. > > I'm on Ubuntu myself, when I open the /var/ folder in my Favorites window, > one of the subolders I see below /var/ is 'spool', which for some reason > you do not see. > > I don't know, not sure how to help, maybe there's something very specific > about your system that's hard to identify, maybe NetBeans is set up in some > very weird way that I've never heard of. Maybe someone else can suggest > something. > > Gj > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:21 PM Charles Brockman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 7/16/19 10:17 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: >> > As a last resort, you could create a new folder, that is recognized in >> > NetBeans, and symlink that to the folder you need that you’re not >> seeing. >> >> In a terminal I created a new symlink called 'netbeans' that links to >> /var/www: >> >> $ sudo ln -s /var/www /var/netbeans >> $ ll >> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 16 13:59 ./ >> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jul 16 13:55 ../ >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 16 07:43 backups/ >> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:16 cache/ >> drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 Jul 16 09:06 crash/ >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 14:14 games/ >> drwxr-xr-x 86 root root 4096 Apr 6 15:36 lib/ >> drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Apr 24 2018 local/ >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 7 10:10 lock -> /run/lock/ >> drwxrwxr-x 17 root syslog 4096 Jul 16 12:54 log/ >> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jul 16 13:29 mail/ >> drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 Apr 26 2018 metrics/ >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 16 13:59 netbeans -> /var/www/ >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 2018 opt/ >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 7 10:10 run -> /run/ >> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 1 10:21 snap/ >> drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Feb 23 10:48 spool/ >> drwxrwsr-x 3 charles svn 4096 May 17 08:33 subversion/ >> drwxrwxrwt 155 root root 12288 Jul 16 13:39 tmp/ >> drwxrwxr-x 4 charles www-data 4096 Jul 16 13:56 www/ >> >> Unfortunately, even though that symbolic exists, NetBeans does not list >> it. >> >> -- >> Charles Brockman >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >>
