Creating Symbolic Links (symlinks??)

[nsr81]

What's the commad for creating a symbolic link to a directory.
I mean same thing as "www", as it points to public_html. I created one a few weeks ago, but that was a fluke. I was trying to make one today, it works in Telnet but not in my FTP client.

[bolsterboy]

What is a symbolic link? Would that be the same as making a shortcut in windows?

[nsr81]

Yeah it is equivalent to a widows shortcut.

[bolsterboy]

i found this, it might help you :)

http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.html#SEC01

hope this heps :)

[reuben]

I belive it is

ln -s /directory_to_link linkname

[nsr81]

Yup that's the one. thanks :)

Note to self:
Get "Unix pocket reference guide" or make it myself. :D