Exceeded limit of symlinks on Xubuntu Dapper

[Steve Flynn]

On 03/10/06, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Also, explain how you are trying to create this symlink - quite often
> the
> > process of explaining your problem in depth switches on a light and you
> > realise where you were going wrong before you finish the post...
>
> You are right -- I just played around with the command on another
> system and I originally had the ln syntax backwards. For some reason I
> was consistently using the ln command in the wrong order. Here's an
> example where I did it RIGHT:



None of this comes as a surprise because I did EXACTLY the same thing
yesterday whilst installing Python 2.5 on my mac. I repeatedly read the man
page for the ln command with the source and target reversed...

The reason is that the source is where you're linking from, and the target
is the link you're creating, yet you think that the target is going to be
the place you're linking too, naturally enough.

You're not the only one! :)

> twt at pbg3:~/testit $
> > twt at pbg3:~/testit $ mkdir this_dir
> > twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ls
> > this_dir
> > twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ln -s this_dir link_this_dir
> > twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ls
> > link_this_dir  this_dir
> > twt at pbg3:~/testit $ ls -la
> > total 12
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 twt twt 4096 2006-10-03 09:35 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  74 twt twt 4096 2006-10-03 09:30 ..
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 twt twt    8 2006-10-03 09:35 link_this_dir -> this_dir
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 twt twt 4096 2006-10-03 09:34 this_dir
> > twt at pbg3:~/testit $
>
> Thank you for the lesson -- now I'm going to try the install again and
>

One which I seem to have to teach myself every couple of months! :)

-- 
Steve
Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...
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