[CentOS] Changing the symbolic link for /Centos/5

[Gavin Carr]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:15:00AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 03:48 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > I do not know the command line for symbolic links.  I created the 
> > > symbolic link of /Centos/5 to /Centos/5.1 in Nautilus which does not 
> > > have a method of changing a symbolic link.  Only deleting it and 
> > > creating a new one.
> > > 
> > 
> > Not that I know of, I always just delete an recreate it using "rm -f" 
> > and "ln -s" at the command line.
> 
> It used to be that the -f worked. Sometime in the past that disappeared.
> Bad decision, IMHO.

It's still there:

  nox:~/tmp/ln$ touch foo
  nox:~/tmp/ln$ touch bar
  nox:~/tmp/ln$ ln -s foo baz
  nox:~/tmp/ln$ ll
  total 12
  -rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 bar
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 gavin gavin 3 Jun 26 10:06 baz -> foo
  -rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 foo
  nox:~/tmp/ln$ ln -sf bar baz
  nox:~/tmp/ln$ ll
  total 12
  -rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 bar
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 gavin gavin 3 Jun 26 10:06 baz -> bar
  -rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 foo


It does seem to be flaky though. I definitely have had times it hasn't
worked recently.

Cheers,
Gavin