Can you do an ls -l on /usr/X11R6, and on /home/x/X11R6 ?

		David/abs

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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> I'm trying to link something two levels down in /home to something one
> level down in /usr...
> 
> e.g.
> 
> [otaku@otaku.users.netset.com]% pwd
> /home/x
> [otaku@otaku.users.netset.com]% ln -s X11R6 /usr
> [otaku@otaku.users.netset.com]% cd /usr/X11R6
> /usr/X11R6: Too many levels of symbolic links.
> 
> /home is a different hard drive...but why would that make a difference
> with links? I do have a link from /root to /home/root...and it works
> without a hitch at all...
> 
> Any help would be appreciated...thanks
> 
> Josh
>