On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:28 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030613 05:58]: > > You know, it took a long time before I got unconfused about that, > > myself. What you want is: > > > > ln -s <target the link will point to> <name of link> > > > > This seems somehow backwards, and the man page uses terms that > > didn't make it clear, at least for me. > > > > > OK - obviously there's something I haven't understood. Not > > > least, 'why' it's not permitted. I thought that it would > > > overwrite the existing link/icon. Is that not so, or is there > > > some other aspect that I have misunderstood? > > > > If there is an existing file, directory, or link with the same > > name, you will have to delete it first. ln won't overwrite an > > existing file name. And remember, EVERYTHING in Linux is a file > > ;-) > > Hi, Jan. OK - got the link created. Then I created one to another > location, which I called OldHome, being my /home in 9.0. All I > wanted to do next was replace the default folder icon with the > folder-important icon, to make a clear differentiation, but I was > told I do not have sufficient access to write to > /home/anne/Desktop/OldHome/.directory. Can you explain to me what > is happening here? > > Anne
I should add that the properties of the Graphics link show me as owner and group as user, while the properties of the OldHome link show root for both. I created them immediately consecutively, so there should be not difference in what I was doing. This is what happened: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ chown anne OldHome [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ chgrp users Oldhome chgrp: failed to get attributes of `Oldhome': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ whoami anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ ls -l Gr* lrwxrwxrwx 1 anne users 9 Jun 13 13:55 Graphics -> /Graphics/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ ls -l Old* lrwxrwxrwx 1 anne users 13 Jun 13 13:57 OldHome -> /mnt/OldHome/ / Anne
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