I just usually add the '-s' flag to my ln's, and it seems to work. Sometimes I add '-snf' just because it's more fun to type. Peter Andreas Rogge wrote: > You can't. > Ken Thompson decided that this complicates things too much so this was > disabled back in the 70ies. > You can however do a > mount --bind /var/spool /home/recordings > this has a quite similar effect. > > Regards, > Andreas Rogge > > Am Freitag, den 12.01.2007, 05:50 +0800 schrieb Mark Quitoriano: > >> Hi im trying to hard link a folder and i get this >> >> # ln /var/spool /home/recordings >> ln: `/var/spool': hard link not allowed for directory >> >> how do i hard link a directory? >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> http://www.infostreet.com "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing." -Earnest Hemingway "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown