Remove The Link???

ajeetraina · 12-17-2007, 12:16 AM

How can I remove the link?

ln -s /etc/httpd/conf.d/ /usr/local/

Pls Help

Uncle_Theodore · 12-17-2007, 12:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajeetraina

How can I remove the link?

ln -s /etc/httpd/conf.d/ /usr/local/

Pls Help

As far as I understand, a command like this would create a symbolic link called "conf.d", pointing at /etc/httpd/conf.d, inside your /usr/local/ directory. Provided, of course, that it already existed when you ran this command.

Just remove "conf.d" from /usr/local. Like this

cd /usr/local
rm conf.d

Disillusionist · 12-17-2007, 12:35 AM

Uncle_Theodore is quite correct

ln will not overwrite any existing file or directory, but attempt to create a link one level down.

Code:

cd /tmp
mkdir A
mkdir B
ln -s /tmp/A /tmp/B

Creates a link: /tmp/B/A that points to /tmp/A

However, if /tmp/B/A exists you get an error stating:

Code:

ln: creating sybolic link '/tmp/B/A' to '/tmp/A': File exists