From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 9:11:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f34.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D27637B41B for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:11:39 -0800 Received: from 196.2.56.5 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:11:38 GMT X-Originating-IP: [196.2.56.5] From: "Malan Joubert" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: symbolic links on ftp Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:11:38 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 17:11:39.0089 (UTC) FILETIME=[7FE32C10:01C1B4B1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I am trying to set up an FreeBSD ftp. It's totally unsecure (read + write on incoming) as it's only going to be used on my LAN but I can't get all of it going: How do symbolic links work? I want to link the /cdrom directory to be shared via ftp is this possible? I did a ls -s and managed to link my / to the ftp directory something which I immediately tried to undo:( I did the following: cd /var/ftp rm -R / Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! It killed my root so at the moment my box is busy reinstalling!!!!!!!!! Anyone care to explain links to me, I tried the manual but it doesn't really say anything... Bye + Thanx Malan Joubert _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message