I have an installed application in /home/appuser/app/
In that directory there is a separate directory confs
for the config files, which is symlinked to ../app-confs
, like so:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 appuser appuser 19 Mar 25 15:22 confs -> ../app-confs/
Looks fine, works fine.
Now I'd like other users to use that application from the same directory (/home/appuser/app/
), so the updates can be done in only one place, but with a different configs directory.
So I create a symlink in /home/user-a/
to /home/appuser/app/
. And I create a new configs directory confs
in /home/user-a/
.
When list /home/user-a/
, I do see
drwxr-xr-x 8 user-a user-a 4096 Apr 29 10:57 app
drwxr-xr-x 8 user-a user-a 4096 Apr 29 10:57 app-confs
and in /home/user-a/app
, I see
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 appuser appuser 19 Mar 25 15:22 confs -> ../app-confs/
...
But when I list /home/user-a/confs/
, I see files from /home/appuser/confs/
, the original confs and not the relative one.
Is there a way to have a relative symlink with a symlinked directory?
Try this:
mkdir ~/TEST
cd ~/TEST
mkdir global
cd global
mkdir app
mkdir conf
touch conf/global_conf
cd app
ln -s ../conf conf
cd ~/TEST
mkdir user
cd user
ln -s ~/TEST/global/app app
mkdir conf
touch conf/user_conf
cd app
ls -l conf/
You would expect "user_conf" file to be shown, or not?