> I believe I understand what you're describing and it's been a long time > since I've had this 'issue' but if I remember correctly, it's a function > of your shell, which I believe is going to be bash. It tries to be > intelligent about its symlink handling. It remembers the cd path you > used to get to that symlink and 'cd ..' sends you back the same way you > got in. It basically treats symlinks as real directories, not pointers. > This can be very useful but it can also be annoying. I'll bet if you use > tcsh, which uses a more literal interpretation of the file-structure, it > would work as you expect. I wasn't ever interested in it enough to see > if it could be disabled in bash. I believe the proper option is -P as in "set -P" in bash to disable this feature (IMHO very useful). Cheers, MaZe.