Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com> [2002-09-25 10:33:15 -0500]: > > | :~$ ln --version > > | ln (fileutils) 4.1 > Any idea of what might be causing ln not to work correctly on my > system? In addition to 'strace ln k y' use the -v option to have it verbosely say what it is doing. rm -rf /tmp/myworkspace # makes sure you start with a clean area mkdir /tmp/myworkspace cd /tmp/myworkspace touch k ln -v k y My guess is that there is a previous symlink at y pointing back to k. Bob
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