Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 12:15:08 +0100 From: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> To: dg@root.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Message-ID: <3344E2BC.5DC51F25@doc.ic.ac.uk> References: <199704041050.CAA11084@root.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
David Greenman wrote: > > We don't have Veritas available and I'm not willing to use CCD due to > too high a drive failure rate. CCD? > >If you decide against it I have some patches for wu-ftpd that gets pwd > >to report where you chdir'd to not where you physically are. So if > >FreeBSD/fred/joe is a symlink to ../../../.01/joe then > > cd FreeBSD/fred/joe > > pwd -> FreeBSD/fred/joe > > > >This doesn't help with mirroring at all but can help avoid confusing > >users. > > Sounds pretty evil and in any case, we're not using wu-ftpd. I don't think its evil, several shells now do it (eg: bash). > Look, if > people can just deal with this for the short term, we'll eventually move > FreeBSD to a 9GB drive and this will be a non-issue again. Sorry if you felt I was trying to get at you, or something. Its just from past experience I've found these things help. -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 171 594 8388 IC-Parc, Imperial College, Fax: +44 171 594 8432 South Kensington, London. SW7 2BZ. UK. Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3344E2BC.5DC51F25>