A symlink has to point to a physical file if you want it to return a file descriptor on open.
So, what you are asking is interesting but does not make sense to me.
Rather than you telling us how to do it, please tell us what you are trying to accomplish.
Do you know about
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I am new to scripting and hope to get help in this forum...we use autosys ... the jil files call shell scripts (korn shell) for automated processes and create logs everytime they are run...the process runs every 5 mins which is creating huge logs...i need to know if logs be created... (0 Replies)
hi...
I have a folder<abc> under /root folder. I want to create a symlink such that when i click on folder<abc> under root, should display my home folder (home/krish).
Immediate inputs appreciated..... (1 Reply)
After a few hours of frustration because I didn't understand why my symlinks are destroyed i just found out that sed -i will destroy symlinks.
I searched but i didn't found any good solution for this.
Is there any way to overcome this ? On my ubuntu server sed version is 4.1.5
edit: Sorry... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to create a symlink on a link file, i mean, there is a file which is actually a symlink of some version. Now i want to create one more symlink on that link file.
EX: there is a file:
uat -> version
prod -> version
Now i want to create one more link on these 'uat' and... (1 Reply)
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I got a little problem, I made a few modifications to the code of the launch script of a testing server(minecraft) and now updating is broken aswell as the automatic directory creation.
These Lines somehow create an endless symlink that refers to itself and I don't know how to fix... (0 Replies)
i would like to remove a directory and also symlink target inside.
my_directory
-- file1 -> /targetpath/file1
-- file2 -> /targetpath/file2
rm -rf my_directory will not remove symlink target.
rm -rf "`readlink -f file1`" will only remove target if specifying the symlink is specified
... (4 Replies)
I am trying to setup my plex server to use symlinks rather than host the movie files.
in my storage directory, i have both movies(some in subdirectory of the name and some just in the parent directory) and tvshows, which have subdirectories for each season, which contains the episodes
i would... (3 Replies)
I know how to create a symlink but I am getting an error message that the file already exists. Also, my symlink doesn't point from target directory to the path correctly,
Here is an example of the path to my folder structure
path: cd /wkspce/wff/DEV/jobs/DEL
the folder structure is:
... (3 Replies)
Hello,
On Solaris 10, here are entries for logs in httpd.conf
ErrorLog "|/export/apache/apache-2.2.17/bin/rotatelogs -l -f /var/log/apache/error_log.%Y%m%d 86400"
It keeps creating daily logs with below names -
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lchgrp
LCHGRP(3) 1 LCHGRP(3)lchgrp - Changes group ownership of symlinkSYNOPSIS
bool lchgrp (string $filename, mixed $group)
DESCRIPTION
Attempts to change the group of the symlink $filename to $group.
Only the superuser may change the group of a symlink arbitrarily; other users may change the group of a symlink to any group of which that
user is a member.
PARAMETERS
o $filename
- Path to the symlink.
o $group
- The group specified by name or number.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Changing the group of a symbolic link
<?php
$target = 'output.php';
$link = 'output.html';
symlink($target, $link);
lchgrp($link, 8);
?>
NOTES
Note
This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.
Note
When safe mode is enabled, PHP checks whether the files or directories being operated upon have the same UID (owner) as the script
that is being executed.
Note
This function is not implemented on Windows platforms.
SEE ALSO chgrp(3), lchown(3), chown(3), chmod(3).
PHP Documentation Group LCHGRP(3)