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Old 12-13-2003
Creating a link
Hi All,

Suppose i have a directory called
/home/rooh and I have an executable that writes to this directory.
the size of /home/rooh/logs is quite small and thus blows out of space.
I don't want to modify the executable but I want to create a link so that all the logs are moved there .

Suppose I want to create a link undet /PT/prod/work becuause this is a big filesysytem.

What I am currently doing is creating a directory called logs under /PT/prod/work i.e /PT/prod/work/logs and then executing this command:
ln -fis /home/rooh/logs /PT/prod/work/logs

this doesn't seem to be correct.....
Can somebody please help me with this.

Thanks
RoohSmilie
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Old 12-14-2003
Are you getting any errors? What are they?

You could try rmdir /PT/prod/work/logs and then run 'ln -s /home/rooh/logs /PT/prod/work/logs'. You may also want to check your permission on the /PT/prod/work directory, but you should get a permission error if you don't have permission.
 
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