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.TH LFC-LN 1 "$Date: 2004/06/28 08:44:28 $" LFC "LFC User Commands"
.SH NAME
lfc-ln \- make a symbolic link to a file or a directory in the LFC Name Server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lfc-ln -s
.I target
[
.I linkname
]
.LP
.B lfc-ln -s
.I target...
.I directory
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B lfc-ln
makes a symbolic link to a file or a directory in the LFC Name Server.
.LP
This requires write permission in
.I linkname
parent directory.
.LP
If
.I linkname
does not start with
.BR / ,
it is prefixed by the content of the
.B LFC_HOME
environment variable.
If
.I linkname
is not specified, the link is created in the current directory with the same
basename as the target.
In the second form, it creates in
.I directory
a link for each target.
.SH EXIT STATUS
This program returns 0 if the operation was successful or >0 if the operation
failed.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR Castor_limits(4) ,
.BR lfc_symlink(3)
.SH AUTHOR
\fBLCG Grid Deployment\fP Team