Hi,

I'm trying to setup a symlink so that my final result is:

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 20 2002 tmp -> ../var/tmp
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The 'tmp' directory is in /usr/tmp and its current permissions are
drwxr-xr-x. I want to setup the symlink to point to /var/tmp so the output would be as above. Can anyone give me the syntax? I always seem to end up with a tmp orphan file and that's it.

Thanks for any help!

ln -s ../var/tmp

From the man pages:

ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]

don't be a muppet drew... seeing as the symlink is meant to go to a directory one level higher, /tmp doesn't make sense. pah...

My bad, sorry almighty acid..

Thanks guys!!