SYMLINK

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:35:23AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> >Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working,  
> >how can I
> >verify a symlink?
> 
> Most people use "ls -l" to see where the link is pointing; software  
> generally uses lstat(2).

That is the  way to check, but may not convince a nervous newbie
of what is happening - thus my longer proof in another post.

////jerry

> 
> >And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world.
> 
> Very good.  Welcome...
> 
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
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