From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 21:29:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA8F11540 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990219052954.XYPT682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:29:54 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: robert Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:29:28 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: ftp and symbolic links Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd list In-reply-to: <36CCA3C8.70286012@mhi-tx.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990219052954.XYPT682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Feb 99, at 17:35, robert wrote: > Hello, I made a symbolic link to my /cdrom filesystem in the > /usr/ftp/pub directory... > but when I anonymous ftp I cannot change into the cdrom directory(ie the > symlink) the permissions are r-xr-xr-x. Is there something I am missing? > It just says file not found.. > (the cdrom is mounted) > any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > please email direct as I am not currently subscribed to the list > thanks in advance. ftpd does a chroot. And everything it uses must be under the ftp root. I'm not explaining this very well. But you can't do a cd outside the tree below the ftp home directory. Hopefully someone else will step in and explain better. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message