Re: symlinks and different $HOME variables

2007-02-15 Thread Christopher Brace
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 20:33 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > I assume you mean that the symlinks in /home/laptop/ point to files in > /data/ and you want them to point to the corresponding files in > /home/laptop/ . The obvious fix is to use relative symlinks instead > of absolute ones. Exactly, I

Re: symlinks and different $HOME variables

2007-02-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 2/14/07, reader4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the desktop, my data is separate from the $HOME folder... $HOME = /remote/home/desktop/ and the data is at /data/. Within /data/, I have several directories that are inter-related... eg, /data/pub1/figs is a link pointing to /data/imgs/pub1. It

symlinks and different $HOME variables

2007-02-14 Thread reader4
I have a laptop and desktop that have most of home directory data sync'd, but I am having trouble keeping symlinks straight. On the desktop, my data is separate from the $HOME folder... $HOME = /remote/home/desktop/ and the data is at /data/. Within /data/, I have several directories that are in