Re: problems with the ln command

[Hannes Mayer <h mayer inode at>]

Fons van der Beek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  I am having a bit of a problem with the ln command.
> If i give the command 
>
>     ln -s "/data/mp3/Nelly" "/datastore/alfabet/N/Nelly"
>
> Then I expect only in the directory "/datastore/alfabet/N/"
> a symboly link named  "Nelly" being created.
> BUT also (!) in  "/data/mp3/Nelly" a symbolic link "Nelly" 
> is created and it is referenced to /data/mp3/Nelly
> (there was already a directory calles "DaDerrty.......blablabla)
>
> drwxrwxrwx    3 apache apache  4096 Jul  5 15:12 .
> drwxrwxrwx  403 apache apache 12288 Jul  4 09:58 ..
> drwxrwxrwx    2 apache apache  4096 May  5 11:29 DaDerrtyVersionsTheReinven
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root   root      15 Jul  5 15:12 Nelly -> /data/mp3/Nelly
>
> What am i doing wrong ?????????????????????????

Fons,

I'm not quite sure where your symlink should point to, but
the general usage is:
ln -s source target

i.e. if you have
/data/mydir
and you want a symlink of mydir in /otherdata do this:
# ln -s /data/mydir /otherdata/mydir

Cheers,
Hannes.