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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi, I am trying to make symbolic link: ln -s /home/application /application where /home/application is NFS mounted file. I got follwing error: ln: creating symbolic link `application': No such file or directory even in su mode. Any idea? Thanks. (HowTos)

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Submitted by robot1 on 07/14/2009

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