On 6 Apr 2013 01:49, "Mara Kim" <hacker.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > See the `-f' option to ln. > > So I did some experimentation, and it is not sufficient to simply use the -f option to ln to update bookmarks > $ ln -s /bin foo > # foo -> /bin/ > $ ln -sf /etc foo > ln: failed to create symbolic link `rot/etc': Permission denied > > You also need to use the -n option to prevent dereferencing > $ ln -sfn /etc foo > # foo -> /etc/ > > Once you've done that though, it works well.
Sorry, I thought it would be implicit that you need to also stop dereferencing. Perhaps I should have said. Chris
