On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 13:38, Fons van der Beek wrote: > Hello all, > > I am having a bit of a problem with the ln command. > If i give the command > > ln -s "/data/mp3/Nelly" "/datastore/alfabet/N/Nelly" > > Then I expect only in the directory "/datastore/alfabet/N/" > a symboly link named "Nelly" being created. > BUT also (!) in "/data/mp3/Nelly" a symbolic link "Nelly" > is created and it is referenced to /data/mp3/Nelly > (there was already a directory calles "DaDerrty.......blablabla) > > drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096 Jul 5 15:12 . > drwxrwxrwx 403 apache apache 12288 Jul 4 09:58 .. > drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 May 5 11:29 DaDerrtyVersionsTheReinven > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 5 15:12 Nelly -> /data/mp3/Nelly > > What am i doing wrong ????????????????????????? > > With kind regards > Fons van der Beek > I believe that the quotation marks around the paths may be your problem. Try the command string without the quotation marks. Dick
