Dec 13, '05 05:34:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Not sure when this creeped in, but it's good for people who like using Unix-styled symbolic links. At least in the latest version of Tiger, all volumes, including local volumes, are listed in /Volumes. The consequence of this is that, now when you log in remotely, a link pointing to say Applications can go to the correct place.
Consideer this example. Computer_A is the local computer and Computer_B is the remote computer. You create the following link:
ln -s /Applications ~/Applications
That creates a symbolic soft link from your home folder to /Applications. Everything will work as expected, as long as you are on Computer_A. If you log in from Computer_B, clicking on that link will take you to the applications folder on Computer_B, and not Computer_A as you might have expected. The solution is therefore to do the following:
ln -s /Volumes/Computer_A/Applications ~/Applications
Now, regardless of whether you are on Computer_A or Computer_B, you will be taken to the applications folder on Computer A. So many words to describe such a simple idea.
[robg adds: I believe the boot disk alias returned to the Volumes folder in 10.4; it had vanished in the 10.3 days, but was there earlier, as I recall. And to clarify one point, in the above example, Computer_A would be replaced by the name of your boot disk on that machine, not by the actual name of the machine as seen in (for instance) the Sharing panel.]
