Ok, so a script we were using to auto-update our mail virus scan plugin with new definitions went and created a symbolic link in a directory to the directory it the symbolic link was in. Anyway, long ...

Learned a handy new trick today! I was trying to roll out some pre-prepared Jboss servers with some symbolically linked directories. I completely forgot that when you unzip these that the symbolic ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.