[NBLUG/talk] linking oracle to java

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 07:08:04PM -0700, Radford Spaeth wrote:
> I read to use ln but I keep getting hard link not allowed.

Sounds like you're on the right track.  Just add "-s" in there for "symlink"
or "softlink".  ln defaults to a "hard" link, which can't point to
directories.

(a hard link points to the underlying file (location on the hard drive) in
exactly the same way as the original file does.  A "soft" or "symbolic" link
points to the location in the directory structure.  "echo 1 > 1 ; ln 1 one ;
echo 2 > 2 ; mv 2 1 ; cat one" vs. "echo 1 > 1 ; ln 1 one ; echo 2 > 2 ; mv
2 1 ; cat one" kinda demonstrates the difference.  Because it could create
undetectable infinite loops, hard links to directories aren't allowed,
except for the special ones that get automatically created))
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