RE: [CentOS] symbolic linking

Frank Cox wrote:

I have a number directories under /opt on computer jack. I want some (not all) of them to appear in /opt on computer jill.

I have the /opt directory on jack mounted on jill under /mnt/jack

If I go into the /opt directory on jill and do this:

ln -s /mnt/jack/opt/files .

I get /opt/files/files on jill. What I want is /opt/files and I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

I don't see anything wrong with that command. A quick test on one of my systems confirms that it should do what you expect.

Try specifying the target explicitly:

ln -s /mnt/jack/opt/files /opt/files

(no trailing slashes on either the source or destination)