Luke, While you are at it, what exactly is the difference between a hard link and a soft link? Thanks, Chuck On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > They are not a way of concatinating directories. They are a way of having > a file exist in one place, and having another, sort of virtual file, > exist in another place, that references the original file. That is called > a link. There are hard links, and sym links. > > For example: > > Say you created: > > /var/www/1.txt > > Now, for convenience, you want that same file to appear in your home > directory. You could just copy it, but then changes to one, would not > take effect in the other. So instead, you create a link: > > ln -s /var/www/1.txt ~/myfile.txt > > Let us also say, that a user called John, wanted the same file, only > called "anotherfile.txt", in his home directory: > > ln -s /var/www/1.txt ~john/otherfile.txt > > Now, every time you access myfile.txt, or otherfile.txt, you are actually > accessing 1.txt. > > Regards, > > Luke > > > > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote: > > > While trying to configure Mailman it gave me a choice. Add a line to a > > configuration file or create a symlink in var/www I'd rather create a > > symlink in /var/www, but I don't know how to create a symlink. I think > > symlinks are a way of concatenating directories. How do I create a symlink? > > > > Rejean Proulx > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com > > Ham License VA3REJ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (82% of Full) Get my public key from website, http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
