Symbolic links, often referred to as symlinks, are advanced shortcuts in Windows that allow you to point to a file or folder, redirecting applications to access them as if they were in a different ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

I wasn't sure how to describe this problem, I've never come across it before. Twice now I've had a problem where, all of a sudden a lib file is missing. After that the system becomes unusable. For ...

Ok, so a script we were using to auto-update our mail virus scan plugin with new definitions went and created a symbolic link in a directory to the directory it the symbolic link was in. Anyway, long ...