General :: Difference Between A "link" And A "symlink"?
Apr 2, 2010What is the difference between a "link" and a "symlink"? Is it related to hard or soft links?
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Programming :: Link Directories - Symlink Not Updated / Hard Link Not Supported?
Sep 6, 2010In the ordering of files I keep I need links to directories. Sometimes I even need to move directories to new locations. I have tried using symlinks, but they become dead when I move the directory they point to. I have tried hard links, but I haven't found any Linux file system that would support hard linked directories. How can I achieve that a complex structure of directories (currently with symlinks for directories and hard links for files) keep symlinks live when directories are moved?
- is there any utility that updates symlinks when a directory is moved?
- is there any Linux filesystem that supports hard linked directories?
- is there any good Linux interface to the new NTFS (the only file system I know to support automatically updating directory links, called directory junctions)?
General :: Difference Between A Hard Link And Symbolic Link?
Jun 20, 2011I have searched around and am trying to understand the difference between a hard link and symbolic link (soft link). I found this link is quite useful. But I am still not very clear. I understand soft link is not a copy of original file, but is a hard link a copy or not?
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Jun 2, 2010There is a symlink from /var/www to a personal directory. FollowSymlink and chmod 755 are all set. It works perfectly until each morning I will get a "Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible" error. When I do a "sudo service apache2 restart", the problem will go away.
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Jun 8, 2010Whenever we insert CD,it creates a shortcut link in desktop.Can we list this link name by using any command? I am using Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0.
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Jun 14, 2010If I have the below sudoers entryusera ALL=(userb) NOPASSWD: /home/userc/bin/executable-fileusera ALL=(userb) NOPASSWD: /home/userc/bin/link-to-another-executable-fileWhen I log-on as usera and try running the below commands, it workssudo -u userb /home/userc/bin/executable-filebut NOT the one below.sudo -u userb /home/userc/bin/link-to-another-executable-fileSorry, user usera is not allowed to execute '/home/userc/bin/link-to-another-executable-file' as userb on hostname.
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Why Can't Make Symlink Except As Root
Mar 13, 2010In my MIDI music collection, I have a "best" folder with duplicate copies of only my favorite files. Recently I thought, why waste memory with duplicates--can't I just put symlinks in the "best" folder? So I tried to, in Konqueror. It would only let me make the symlinks from the Konqueror superuser account.
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Jun 7, 20112.6.38-8-generic
Mint 11 64 bit
I'm trying to move a file from a directory to another one and create a symlink but seem to be doing something wrong. Have done "man ln" and looked up info in coreutils but I don't seem to be able to get it right. There are two files in ./home/jim/.config/banshee-1/ that I want to move to ./home/jim/Dropbox/banshee. I have created backups of both and created the new folder in Dropbox. see attached screen shots. I then run
Code: jim@saturn ~ $ sudo ln - ./home/jim/Dropbox/banshee/banshee.db ./home/jim/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db
ln: creating symbolic link `./home/jim/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db': No such file or directory and get the above error message. Now I know symlinks do not need to be complete at the time of creation, but I'm not sure if I have done this right or not and if I try and read and write banshee.db at the original location if it will do it properly and efficiently. Is this a case where I should do a hardlink instead and have both files. If I want to do this every time at start up, how do I automate the commands once I have them right?
General :: Create Symlink For Every File Want To Include?
Jul 4, 2010I have a CMS I have developed, which will run on several sites all hosted in sub directories on my dedicated server. I want to create symlinks for the main files of the CMS, including all config files, functions and admin sections. Then there will be a few files specific to each site.I read some tutorials on creating symlinks, although most are not very good in my opinion.
Do you have to create a symlink for every file I want to include? Or can I just create a symlink to a directory? For example:CMS is located at /www/cms/.Can I make www/domain1/ point to that directory, and if so, will all files include themselves correctly. I think I am a bit confused on how this works.
General :: Shell - On (CentOS 5), Remembering When We've Followed A Symlink And Being About To 'cd?
Dec 10, 2010I'm trying to figure out how to tell the shell (tcsh) to remember when I've gone into a symlinked folder, and allow 'cd' to navigate back out of the symlink rather than just navigate to the parent directory of the linked-to folder...
For example:
$ ls -al /jobs
tech -> /mnt/projects1/tech
temp -> /mnt/projects2/temp
$ cd /jobs/tech
$ cd ../temp
../temp: No such file or directory.
$ pwd
/mnt/projects1/tech
General :: Symlink All Files But Copy Certain Extensions?
Jul 27, 2011I'm wondering how I'd be able to symlink all the files in a dir structure and then also copy files of a certain extension in that dir. I'm basically symlinking all files within /foo/a,b,c to /bar/a,b,c and then copying over certain files with a certain extensions.
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Rdiff-backup Keeps Backing Up A Symlink, Ignoring Files Under It
Dec 6, 2010I've got a backup.list file that looks like this:
+ /ext/installs
+ /ext/media
- /ext
- /backup
- /dev
- /mnt
- /proc
/ext is a symlink to /mnt/vg1/vol1, under which are installs and media directories.
I'm running:
rdiff-backup --backup-mode --include-globbing-filelist backup.list / /backup
rdiff-backup keeps recreating a symlink: /backup/ext -> /mnt/vg1/vol1, which is kind of missing the point, because then it doesn't actually back up the files in /mnt/vg1/vol1/installs, etc.
General :: Use Symlink To Provide Access To A Specific File Under A Restricted Directory
Jan 24, 2011My home directory's permissions allow only myself access to it. Is it possible to put a file inside my home directory with.. say.. full permissions, and create a symlink to it so other users can access that file alone inside my home folder? System is Ubuntu Karmic.
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Sep 30, 2010is there a way to make a symlink that redirects to the directory rather than acting as an alternate path? In other word, what I have now is:
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I want my pwd to be the hardlink pwd rather than the symlink pwd after changing my directory.
OpenSUSE :: Symbolic Link Not Allowed Or Link Target Not Accessible: /srv/www/htdocs?
Apr 28, 2010i only need localhost for testing some phpnow i get[Wed Apr 28 18:44:57 2010] [error] [client ::1] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /srv/www/htdocs
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Aug 16, 2011I was looking for live link to download ubuntu mobile but unfortunately I don't find anything... Can someone send me a link for download and a link with the installation instructions ?? All the links that I found are dead.
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Sep 8, 2010how can we create soft link and hard link in RHEL5 when am using in command it is giving format error
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Apr 26, 2010I have a problem where I'm using Ubuntu linux to mount a Windows Vista machine's USB drive and access it on the web using Apache. I did have the USB drive plugged into the Linux machine directly and that was working via the web. FollowSymLinks is on in httpd.conf
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The mount works and I can see the files (see above) from my regular linux user account. If I make a test file in /mnt and soft link to that, I can see it on the web. So it's just the mount to the vista machine that seems to be a problem. It's supposed to be a simple read-only mount and the apache login should (I think) be able to see the same generic root access permissions.
log from apache: [Mon Apr 26 20:39:42 2010] [error] [client 99.99.99.99] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /home/user1/pub_html/Music, referer: https://xx.xx.xx/~user1/music.html
The credentials have a login and password that matches a special read-only account on Vista. I can see the files on the system from Linux, but not via the web. As mentioned above, a different link to the same /mnt area works fine via the web. I've tried several different mount options with no success.
General :: Symlink Each Of The Files In One Directory To Another Directory?
Feb 11, 2011If I have a directory /foo with a few files in it, how do I symlink each entry in /foo into /bar/? For instance, if /foo has the files a, b and c, I want to create three symlinks:
/bar/a -> /foo/a
/bar/b -> /foo/b
/bar/c -> /foo/c
Ubuntu :: How Can Be Changed Symlink From / Etc / Rc2.d Directory
Feb 27, 2010How can be changed a symlink from the /etc/rc2.d directory.I want tho change the time of start from S20 to S60.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Samba Symlink Change With 10.10?
Oct 10, 2010I have a server with my music on it. There is a network share where all my machines can access that music. In the past I have created a link inside the Music folder of each user/machine which links to the Samba share. I have been doing this by linking to /home/[username]/.gvfs/share on server.
In 8.10 I am able to drag and drop to create the necessary link from Music to share on server. With maybe 9.10 I lost the ability to drag and drop the link and had to resort to the command line ( ln -s "/home/[username]/.gvfs/share on server" /home/[username]/Music ). With 10.10 I don't seem to be able to create this link using any method. (Any link which is created is linked to / .) (After 8.10 admin rights are required to create the link from ~/.gvfs/whatever.) This method is very handy as all of the machines and users point to the exact same location for their music (~/Music/share) and if I can't create that link this system of organization fails.
Ubuntu :: How To Undo Changing Symlink
Feb 4, 2011how to undo this?
"Simply change the symlink so that it points to /bin/bash. To do this, open a terminal, and type the following:
sudo rm -f /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
From now on your scripts should work as their authors expected."
Ubuntu :: Can't Execute A Symlink In /etc/init.d?
Aug 22, 2011So, I made a bash script that I need to be executed on booting, I created it in /etc/sbin/mount_folder.sh
Code:
sudo chmod +x mount_folder.sh
sudo ln -s mount_folder.sh /etc/init.d/mount_folder.sh
Then I try to:
[Code].....
Also, if I create the symbolic link in the same folder I can execute it normally
Software :: KDE Paste A File As A Symlink?
Jun 16, 2010if it is possible to copy and paste as a symlink.
It seems to me that the only way to create a shortcut or symlink is through the command line. I use KDE.
This was one of the most basic things Windows could do since Windows 95, and is one of the simplest shortcuts I dearly miss since leaving Windows.
Software :: How To Change Timestamp Of Symlink
Feb 10, 2010I have a directory containing files and symlinks to files elswhere. I make a copy of the directory like this:
cp -rp dir/* new_dir
The files in new_dir have their original timestamps, but the symlinks have the current time. touch -t does not operate on the symblink but on the files they reference. Is there a way to set the timestamp of the symlink to a time in the past?
Software :: Creating Symlink With Gcc To Libgcc.a In LFS V6.7
Feb 11, 2011I have been using linux for about 4 months now and decided i fancy the challenge of building a LFS system(Using book version 6.7). I have got all the way up to the point of gcc being installed and then have to create the symlink to libgcc.a
Now i have typed in the command and tried copy and pasting but i always get the following output:
Code:
Now it cannot find -gcc it appears but states at the bottom ./libgcc.a file exists.
If its a fatal error or what I can do to possibly correct it!
Fedora :: Change Lib Symlink Everytime Restart F14?
Feb 19, 2011Because I am working with some 3d software, and to be able to start it I need to symlink libGL.so.1 and libGL.so.1.2 from /usr/lib64/ to libGL.so.1 and libGL.so.1.2 from /usr/lib64/catalyst/ folder. I move existing libs to new names by adding .bak at the end of file name.
But everytime I restart machine soemthing changes libGL.so.1 linking from libGL.so.1.2 (in catalyst folder) to libGL.so.1.2.bak (in usr/lib64/ folder), original file. And I can not start 3d software. Can I stop that from happening somehow? Why is that happening at all?
Ubuntu Networking :: Samba Share With Symlink?
Jul 26, 2010I have mounted a samba share on my desktop from a remote server (with smb4k). There I created a symlink to "/". When I open the symlink with konqueror it opens the right one (the root directory of the server), but when i open this link with the shell (cd rootfs/), then it opens my local root directory (of my host)... Is it possible to open the right link with the shell?
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Aug 7, 2010I'm running a clean install of Lucid on a new HD. I've moved over all my old data and files from the previous Karmic system, and am having trouble with a directory full of symlinks. This is a collection of links into my photographs, which I use for wallpaper with Desktop Drapes, and the directory has 1300 symlinks which now point to the wrong place.
I only need to change the first part of the link target:
/oldplace/somedir/subdir/photo.jpg
into:
/newplace/somedir/sudir/photo.jpg
I believe this needs the application of _ ln _ in a terminal to re-write the symlink, and the use of a bash line including _ if . . fi _ or possibly _ IFS _ ? I might also need to use _ sed, - but I'm not sure of the syntax for this.
Security :: Symlink On Public Folder - Problem Or Not
Jul 22, 2010I have to make sym link of phpmyadmin in /var/www in order to run phpmyadmin. I read that links can't be chmod-ed. The link ot folder phpmyadmin has 777 permissions. When browse in it every file has only read and for the root read/write access.
Is that a problem (777 access rights on sym link phpmyadmin on /var/www folder)?