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Questions tagged [symbolic-link]

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Using symbolic links with git

I used to have my system configuration files all in one directory for better management but now i need to use some version control on it. But the problem is that git doesn't understand symbolic links that point to outside of the repository, and i…
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How do you create a symbolic (hardlink) in CMD.exe

I need to do this without installing software... Any ideas? MSDOS (cmd.exe) on Windows XP
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Symbolic Links and Multiple Mount Points

I am sure this may seem like a simple question, but I cannot seem to ask Google the correct question for the life of me. In short, I am having trouble understanding how symbolic links function when a given filesystem is mounted at multiple…
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Fixing Shared PCRE Library on CentOS

This is less a question about PCRE, and more a question about updating shared libraries. The distribution of CentOS I'm running only allows for yum upgrades to version 6.6, or somewhere similar. I'm installing an issue tracker that requires PCRE…
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How to configure NFS to resolve symbolic links on the server side?

My beard is solid grey now, and I long recall using NFS for all these decades and here I cite the original RFC that gives us the basis for the NFS we have today RFC1094. Of course, three decades and some have passed since then, so here's the…
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fail to enable mysqld service but after reboot the service is running on centos 7

After I installed, I run systemctl enable mysqld.service. Then, the output is: Failed to execute operation: Too many levels of symbolic links After this error, I reboot my service, and I check the status of mysqld.service. systemctl status…
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mklink errors out with "The device does not support symbolic links"

I need to store symbolic links in a network folder. Trying this: mklink \edgeserver\public\test.pdf \fileserver1\files\test.pdf and getting an error: The device does not support symbolic links The command prompt is running on Windows Server 2008…
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Under what circumstances would a junction point be more appropriate than a symbolic link?

Symbolic links were introduced an incredibly long time ago in Windows, yet I still encounter a large number of systems that use junction points. I know that symbolic links afford functionality not in junction points (e.g., they work on external…
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Does Windows have symlinks?

I have been doing something on Unix that required a symlink. I want to port my application to Windows. Does Windows have symlinks? EDIT: I should be more specific. I'd prefer XP. I'll install Vista if I have to.
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Is it an unsafe practice to symlink /etc conf files?

To manage the configuration of a server, I keep some configuration flies (located in /etc) under version control (in the home folder) and then symlink to them from their /etc locations: /etc/someprog/c.conf ->…
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List all symbolic links on a unix system

How can I find all of the symbolic links on a unix/linux system?
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Denied permission of a symbolic link to a shared folder

I use Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect my Mac to Microsoft Azure VM. I follow this thread (apple.stackexchange.com/a/140506/20747) to share a Mac folder named Music with the VM. It works fine, here is the result of net use. In the VM, I need to…
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Why won't apache allow symbolic links, with SELinux?

I have a simple scenario: I want to symlink /home/leonard/apache/sandbox/markdown to /home/leonard/github/markdown-editor, so that the markdown-editor can be viewed from my browser. I setup the link with ln -s /home/leonard/github/markdown-editor…
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How to allow a Windows Client to follow a Remote Symbolic Link Transparently

Here's the scenario. Client - Windows 7 workstation ServerA - Windows 2008 file server ServerB - Windows 2008 file server On ServerA: mklink /D c:\Share\Link \\ServerB\Share\Dest That works great. It's what happens on the client that's of…
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nginx symlinks permission denied / 403 Forbidden on Mac OSX

So I have an nginx server running on Mac OSX and I am trying to create a symlink in my nginx www directory from somewhere else. In the browser I get the wonderful 403 Forbidden error. I have also tried chmod'ing my life away for the past few…
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