> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Egglestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: segunda-feira, 26 de Novembro de 2001 17:40 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: symbolic links > > > Hello, > > I was running this command: > > ls -l > > in here: > > /var/spool/ > > The file "mail" showed a link to somewhere, here's the output > from mail > > .....Apr 1 2001 mail -> ../mail > > My question: > I'm guessing that the file "mail" is linked to here: /var/mail > but the above output doesn't tell me that.
Yes it does; .. means the parent dir, and so /var/spool/mail is a symlink to ../mail, i.e. /var/mail (since /var is the parent fir of /var/spool). It's a relative symlink. cheers, fsm -- Frederico S. Muñoz Cap Gemini Ernst & Young : [EMAIL PROTECTED] IIES : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Project: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Ever noticed something? Unix comes with compilers. Windows comes with Solitaire. ** -Adep
