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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Anil Jangity <aj@entic.net>
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Subject: Re: INTERNAL_LS 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:50:58 MST."
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:50:58 MST, Anil Jangity wrote:

> Yea it does what its supposed to do. When I do ``ls / I'' should get back
> a listing of my $HOME, which it does.

So then ftp is indeed chrooting you into your home directory. This means
that the apparent root directory is really $HOME. So your symlink to
/tmp links to itself.

This has nothing to do with INTERNAL_LS.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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