[GLLUG] Re: symbolic links

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 at 01:04:25PM -0500, David Smith wrote:
> I don't understand this.
> 
> 1) I was doing cd /mnt
> 
> 2) Then I was doing ln -s /a
> 
> 3) Then I would do rm a
> 
> I did this a number of times with no problems.
> 
> This morning those steps worked, but /mnt/a@ was in red.

Red on your standard ls output indicates a dangling symbolic link.
Type ls -l.  Does the link refer to an existing inode/file? 

> I did cd a and got an error:
> "too many levels of symbolic links"

This tends to happen when you have a link a that refers to link b and
link b refers back to link a.

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Phillip Hofmeister