From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 8:23:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C16B1174D for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:22:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryturner@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04129; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:22:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from ryturner-2.campus.vt.edu (ryturner-2.campus.vt.edu [198.82.86.129]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08004; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:22:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Ryan Turner" To: Cc: Subject: RE: ftp and symbolic links Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:19:58 -0500 Message-ID: <000001be5c23$b1d09440$815652c6@ryturner-2.campus.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <19990219052954.XYPT682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same problem. I fixed it by mounting the cdrom under /usr/home/ftp/pub/cdrom Ryan Turner ryturner@vt.edu > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan Langille > Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:29 AM > To: robert > Cc: freebsd list > Subject: Re: ftp and symbolic links > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message