On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:12:30AM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > I have a perl script that creates some symlinks. The symlinks get > created but I can't see them over samba or nfs. If I create the symlink > manually at a prompt it works fine and I can see it over samba and nfs. > If I compare two create each way I can't see any difference in file > properties. > > If I do a simple ls, the symlink created by perl is a maroon color (in > my specific terminal session), while the manually created one is a light > blue color. What could be making these different? > > This is on FC2. Anyone know what the problem could be? > > Perl is creating them like: > symlink "$oldpath/$oldfilename", "$newpath/$newfilename" or die "Failed > to create symlink $newpath/$newfilename: $!"; At a guess I'd say that the ones you created with the perl script point to the wrong location. Try 'ls -l' and ls '-lL' on both the good and the bad links and us what you get. Dave. -- A walk of a thousand miles begins with a single step... then continues for another 1,999,999 or so.
