On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
On 13 March 2015 at 07:38, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:But what's the point of such a symlink?It does no harm, and if a beginner is following a tutorial that expects /etc/httpd/log, it will still work.The symlink `/etc/httpd/log` is just terrible. If you wanna do a "grep -r myconf /etc", it will scans /var/log... So, yes, it is a total utter crap.
No, this is not correct. grep -r does not follow symbolic links. See man 1 grep.