Re: Report a bug in the ln command

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Laemmerhirt, Kai wrote:

> in the already existing directory /srv/backup/home I wanted to create a
> link for the user eddi to eddis home directory for data backup
> reasons. In order not to change into the target directory I used the
> following command:
>
> ln -sf /home/eddi /srv/backup/home/eddi

Do you observe that running this command created two symlinks?
/srv/backup/home/eddi -> /home/eddi
/home/eddi/eddi -> /home/eddi

That's unusual; please try re-running the command with the --verbose 
flag, and report the results here. The "-f" flag shouldn't have any 
effect unless the link(s) already exist.


Cheers,
Phil