Ubuntu

Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to create 'conditional symlinks' on a GNU/linux or unix system. I know this has been brought up already several times.. (I wanted to put some links but I dont have 5 posts yet..)

From wikipedia
However I haven't seen any solutions.

I have the "feeling" that it could perhaps be done by creating a special device (like in /dev). However I have no experience creating such devices. For example a small C-program could act as wrapper processing the conditionals, working as pipe stream. For example based on the hostname the stream would point to either file1 or file2, of course more complicated operations are easily possible if this basic example works.

Could someone comment if my hunch makes any sense?

Thanks.

if this is still an issue ...

just create a wrapper script that accounts for the required conditions ... sample code below just creates the symlinks in OS-specific directories ...

Code:

#! /bin/ksh
source=$1
target=$2
hosttype=$(uname)

case $hosttype in 
      Linux) ln -s $source /dir1/$target ;;
      HP-UX) ln -s $source /dir2/$target ;;
      AIX) ln -s $source /dir3/$target ;;
      Solaris) ln -s $source /dir4/$target ;;
esac

exit 0

case