[asterisk-users] Symbolic Link

[Paul]

chester c young wrote:

>--- bilal ghayyad <bilmar_gh at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Hi List;
>>
>>To create the symbolic link, I read in the documenation that I have
>>to type this command:
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>># ln -s /usr/src/'uname -r' /usr/src/linux-2.4
>>
>>1) What it means by 'uname -r'?
>>2) Why I have to create such symbolic link to do pointing for the
>>kernel? For what exctly will be used with asterisk?
>>3) What is the relation between creating such symbolic link and build
>>directory?
>>
>>Any advise.
>>
>>Regards
>>Bilal
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>1) those are backticks: `uname -r`  (it prints the kernel release)
>2) ?
>3) don't understand your question
>
>what are you trying to do??
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My guess is he is preparing to compile something and following steps in
a readme/howto type of doc. He wants to understand the how and why of it
all. When I was teaching college classes at night, most of the students
didn't care that much.

Bilal, the backtick usage is explained in the bash manual page under the
subtitle "Command Substitution". It is a long manual page but highly
educational.

man bash

While you are at it do a "man uname" to see the many options the comman
allows.

Enjoy!