i get the error 'too many levels of symbolic links' after trying to cd to a symlink i made to a directory and i'm sure the error can't mean what it appears to mean, my directory structure is: /stuff/ftpsite/linux/../i586/ and i made a symlink to the aformentioned /i586 directory named /stuff/i586 so as to save me time, but when i cd to /stuff/i586 i get the above error /stuff is a top level mount point of a partition the command i used was [root@sherlock /stuff]#ln -s /stuff/ftpsite/..../i586 /stuff/i586 what have i done wrong? bascule