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voidmain:
No, you link to the full path of the executable, not the directory. If you have a program called "netscape" in a directory called "/usr/local/netscape" you would:

# ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/bin/netscape

Notice there are two occurances of netcape in the first path, one is the directory, one is the name of the program. You are trying to execute the directory, which of course isn't going to produce the results you are looking for.

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

heljy:
Oh, ok, I get it.

Thanks alot!

Calum:
how dumb am i? i have been hobbling along grumpily with this sort of issue without even thinking of putting symlinks in /usr/bin!

thanks void main. I should have known that though...

voidmain:
Add it to the FAQ.  

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