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How to give access to user for specifig directory?
I made symlink when logged in as www (apache user):
ln -s /home/anotheruser/test /var/www/test
Now I go to my mydomain.com/test and I get a 403 error.
/home/anotheruser/ has permissions 764 ...
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Cant remove/delete symlink
I have tried to create a symlink and it threw this error:
ln: accessing `.test': Permission denied
Now I can't unlink or delete the symlink file.
Tried Googling for help but could not find a ...
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Unix Copy (cp) without Symbolic Links
I want to copy my files but convert the symbolic links to hard links (ie. the actual file). How can I do this?
Here's my code (that isn't working):
cp -RL ${FROM_DIR} ${TO_DIR}
Note: this is for ...
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I have multiple installs of wordpress, all using the same plugins but in different locations. how can i use a symlink link to avoid duplication?
I have multiple installations of wordpress on my server, all using the same plugins but in different locations.
i.e i have
/home/site1/wp-content/plugins/plugin1
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How do I search/replace symbolic links?
I've been having this issue for a long time, and I don't want to reinstall the whole system, yet.
Now there's an app that runs on Java, and it doesn't even open.
The logs says some cocoa files were ...
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Directory of dereferenced symbolic link?
In shell script, how can I dereference a symbolic link and get the directory of the file it links to?
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Unix (Debian) autocomplete paths thru symlinks
By default, directory symlinks on unix systems are treated as files as far as the autocomplete feature goes. For example, having a directory symlink at /srv/link/, typing /srv/liTAB does only complete ...
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Does ln -s require you to be in a certain directory?
I want to create a simple symlink to a file.
It works perfectly if I run the command from inside the directory where I want the symlink to be created:
/path/to/link $ ln -s /path/to/file .
But if ...
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Does rm -f follow symbolic links?
I have a directory like this:
$ ls -l
total 899166
drwxr-xr-x 12 me scicomp 324 Jan 24 13:47 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 me scicomp 84188 Jan 24 13:47 lod-thin-1.000000-0.010000-0.030000.rda
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How do I move a linked file on Unix?
I have a bunch of files in one directory and links to each one of those files in another directory. So ls -l looks something like this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rembol rembol 89 Jan 25 10:00 copyright.txt ...
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Unix pipe: find | ln -s
I'm trying to symlink some php files using the following command:
find `pwd` -name "*.php" | ln -s * /home/frankv/www/bietroboter.de/symlinks
However, all the symlinks are broken because the little ...
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1answer
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linking private documents in public directory
On an OS X server, I have some documents in /Users/me/Documents/here/
Permissions to /Users/me/Documents is set to drwxrwxr--.
Permissions to /Users/me/Documents/here is set to drwxrwxr-x.
I want ...
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1answer
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Find symlink when 'find' hasn't worked
So I have a few utility scripts in my ~/scripts folder. They are all bash scripts, nothing amazing about that. One is named sfind.sh, the other is svn-add-all.sh. At some point, I created symlinks to ...
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Soft link to a Excel sheet created in Unix is displayed as a Folder in Window
Created a Softlink for a Excel sheet using the following command, in Unix shared file system.
temp$ ln -s temp1/Main.xlsm Link.xlsm
But when I view the temp directory in Windows, Link.xlsm appears ...
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Create a softlink for a file on two servers
I want to create a softlink for a file between two servers. The file is present on server1 and a softlink should be created for it on server2.
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rsync functionality wanted - but i need symlinks, not copies
Is there a way to perform what rsync does (compiles many directories into a single directory) - But instead of copying files/sub-directories I need it to create a directory with symlinks that point ...
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2answers
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Move to the directory of a symbolic link
On a UNIX machine I in my current directory I create a symbolic link:
> ln -s public_html/code/index.html
Which creates a file locally named index.html. How can cd to the directory ...
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How to see the end of a long chain of symbolic links
Suppose I have a link that points to another link that points to another link, etc. way down the line. I'm not sure how many levels of links there are. What's the slick command line way to see the ...
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1answer
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Accessing files obscured by filesystem mounted at non-empty directory
I wish to mount a volume/filesystem at a non-empty directory, yet still retain access to the directory's contents. Is this possible?
I know that a filesystem can be mounted at a non-empty directory ...
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Can I link log files to my web directory var/www?
Can I link log files to my web directory var/www ?
so I have var/www/logs
And then remove reading permission to others in my unix link preferences ?
By the way can I change links preferences ?
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1answer
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Editing softlinked files in UNIX
Let's say I have file A, and using 'ln -s A B', I have B.
When I open, edit and save B, now B is not symlink anymore. It's just a new copy of A.
Is this expected behavior? I use Mac OS X, and I ...
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Unix: softlinks, hardlinks
I am somewhat confused what the differences between a softlink, and a hardlink are (on unix).
It seems like a softlink is the same as a shortcut in windows or an alias on Mac OS X. (Can someone ...
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Finding all symbolic and hard links to a file on UNIX
If I have a specific file in a UNIX filesystem, is there a way to use bash to find all links to that file, both symbolic and hard? If I need different commands for each, what are they?
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What are the advantages of symlinks over hard links and viceversa?
I understand the differences between symbolic and hard links, but I've never understood why choose one or the other.
