I never did know that. I have an educated guess that has served me well, but I will let someone with exact information answer this. Luke On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- Want a free month of internet access on a great ISP? Go here: http://www.tacticus.com/net/
