[13:29] <dgroos> Good Morning!
[13:30] <dgroos> I've been working to make a symlink for a good hour and have had un-success :(
[13:30] <alkisg> a symlink?!
[13:31] <dgroos> alkisg: hi :)
[13:31] <dgroos> is this bad?
[13:31] <alkisg> Hello
[13:31] <alkisg> What exactly did you try?
[13:31] <dgroos> I did this...
[13:32] <dgroos> sudo ln -s /home/dgroos/Desktop/DogTraits /home/*/Desktop/Dogs
[13:33] <dgroos> where DogTraits is an already existing folder I want to share to all...
[13:33] <dgroos> And Dogs is the symlink I want to appear on everyone's Desktop
[13:33] <alkisg> You'd need a loop for that
[13:33] <dgroos> ?
[13:34] <alkisg> for f in /home/*/Desktop; do ln -s /home/dgross/Desktop/DogTraits $f/Dogs; done
[13:34] <alkisg> (and a sudo there...)
[13:34] <dgroos> sorry--do I just type exactly as you wrote.. w a sudo?
[13:35] <alkisg> for f in /home/*/Desktop; do echo sudo ln -s /home/dgross/Desktop/DogTraits $f/Dogs; done
[13:35] <alkisg> type exactly that ^^
[13:35] <alkisg> If it seems ok, then remove the "echo"
[13:36] <dgroos> I don't know what you mean, 'If it seems ok, then remove the "echo"?
[13:38] <alkisg> There's an echo in that line
[13:38] <alkisg> That echo is used to show the instructions that are going to be executed, instead of executing them
[13:38] <alkisg> Just run that command, you'll see what I mean
[13:39] <dgroos> Right :)
[13:41] <dgroos> it says, "sudo ln -s bash: /home/dgroos/Desktop/Dogtraits/: is a directory" is this good?
[13:43] <alkisg> Nope. Did you copy/paste that line? Or did you type it?
[13:47] <dgroos> type it... I'll try again
[13:47] <dgroos> Or, I'll do irc on other computer, better...
[13:48] <dgroos> for f in /home/*/Desktop; do echo sudo ln -s /home/dgross/Desktop/DogTraits $f/Dogs; done
[13:50]  * alkisg reboots to check why statd isn't starting by default and is causing nfs to break...
[13:53] <dgroos_> alkisg: And again, thanks :)
[13:53] <alkisg> np :)
[13:54] <alkisg> dgroos_: I usually do the same but for the teacher's "Public" directory
[13:54] <dgroos_> Now I'll sprint to school and see if the permissions works correctly!
[13:54] <alkisg> So everything he puts there, the students can see it from a symlink in their desktop dirs
[13:55] <dgroos_> I know that over the summer I'm going to work on developing a sharing system--for next year
[13:56] <dgroos_> So, I hope that I can put an image in that directory, DogTraits, and then any student can drag the images they need to their desktop as needed, but it won't delete the original in the DogTraits folder...
[13:57] <alkisg> dgroos_, yeah, by default the teacher has read/write access there and the students read-only.
[13:59] <dgroos_> Cool--I'm off!
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