Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:03:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FTP: Following symlinks Message-ID: <19981219140324.E24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812191120370.22540-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>; from Dean Hollister on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 11:21:09AM %2B0800 References: <19981219134523.C24125@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812191120370.22540-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 11:21:09 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Symlinks work fine if you log in as a normal user. > > And they work fine across the *same* filesystem. You mean in a chroot environment? Sure, it's only absolute symlinks that won't work. In a symlink environment, try this: - ftp spool directory /var/spool/ftp - file /var/spool/ftp/pub/myarchive.tgz # cd /var/spool/ftp/pub # ln -s /var/spool/ftp/pub/myarchive.tgz yourarchive.tar.gz # ln -s myarchive.tgz hisarchive.tar.gz You'll be able to acess hisarchive.tar.gz via anonymous ftp, because it doesn't mess around with the name of the directory. You won't be able to access yourarchive.tar.GM. >> Presumably you're talking about anonymous ftp, which uses a chrooted >> environment. In a chrooted environment, symlinks relate to new root. >> I'd guess you're trying to get outside the new root. > > Would an nfs mount be the solution? Possibly. You haven't made it clear why you can't put the file in the correct place. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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