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When creating a symbolic link, how do I troubleshoot 'too many levels of symbolic links'?

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I'm trying to create a symbolic link on Ubuntu 10.04 ((Lucid Lynx)) it says: And when I do I just get: I tried to create it before, and I'm not sure if I run a wrong command...

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me@laptop:~/PHPUnit$ ls
assertions.php      LICENSE      PHPUnit           README.markdown
build.xml           package.xml  phpunit.bat       Tests
C…

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Fix for: When creating a symbolic link, how do I troubleshoot 'too many levels of symbolic links'?

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Beware that using , the will be interpreted as relative to the directory (where the symlink will belong). Your command would create a symlink that points to itself. Hence, a path lookup loop would occur every time the symlink is accessed. In your ca…

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