On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:35, Dave Mitchell wrote: > 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. > Dave, Thanks. Looks like that is the problem. Somewhere in the program I'm screwing up the path+filename that the symlink points to. Thanks, James
