Re: Odd symlink behavour

Andras Pataki (apataki@superlink.net)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:47:13 -0400


I've been having problems with symlinks and NFS.
Could someone enligten me, point me in the right direction
about the following?

on comet (nfs server):

comet:/files/Store$ ls -l z
lrwxrwxrwx 1 apataki users 4 Oct 22 22:35 z -> /usr

on jupiter (nfs client):

jupiter:/mnt/comet/files/Store# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdb6 507423 363848 117369 76% /
/dev/hdb5 507423 307012 174205 64% /mnt/old
comet:/ 499085 296891 176418 63% /mnt/comet
jupiter:/mnt/comet/files/Store# ls -l z
lrwxrwxrwx 1 apataki users 1024 Oct 22 22:35 z -> ../../usr
jupiter:/mnt/comet/files/Store#

Why is z not a link to /usr but ../../usr ?
Is there a way to make an absolute symlink to /usr from
/mnt/comet/files/Store/z ?

Andras Pataki
apataki@superlink.net