Frank Cox wrote: > I have a number directories under /opt on computer jack. I want some > (not all) of them to appear in /opt on computer jill. > > I have the /opt directory on jack mounted on jill under /mnt/jack > > If I go into the /opt directory on jill and do this: > > ln -s /mnt/jack/opt/files . > > I get /opt/files/files on jill. What I want is /opt/files and I > can't see what I'm doing wrong. I don't see anything wrong with that command. A quick test on one of my systems confirms that it should do what you expect. Try specifying the target explicitly: ln -s /mnt/jack/opt/files /opt/files (no trailing slashes on either the source or destination) -- Bowie _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos