Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:27:23 -0000 From: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Anonymous ftp and symlinks Message-ID: <FB7CAC781DB6D311BEE800805FE6FADA2F4DB5@camexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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> Hi all, > > I have been scratching my head over this one for quite some time. I > cannot find any info that > gives me an answer in the ftpd man page or anywhere else I've looked, so > please indulge me. > > I want to allow access by means of the anonymous ftp account to my CDRom > drive. I have set > up the anon ftp site, and want now to do something like: > > mount /cdrom > cd /var/ftp/pub > ln -s deadrat /cdrom > > The idea being that I can allow a Linux user (we have many here...) to do > a network install over > ftp. But, when you connect and try to cd to deadrat, you get this: > > ftp> cd deadrat > 550 deadrat: No such file or directory. > > How can I make the ftp server follow the symlink? I am sure it must be > possible, but I can't > figure out quite how. > > Thanks for any insights or thoughts. > > Dan Bye > _______________________________ > UUNET UK > FM Server Support Engineer > Internet House > 332 Science Park > Milton Road > Cambridge > CB4 0BZ > > Tel: 01223 250 122 > E-mail: servers@support.uk.uu.net > > A WorldCom Company. > ============================ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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