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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Anil Jangity <aj@entic.net>
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Subject: Re: INTERNAL_LS 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:37:32 MST."
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:37:32 MST, Anil Jangity wrote:

> In their $HOME directory, I have a symbolic links to another part of the
> partition (not in /home). Now, when I try to use an FTP client to 
> change direcotries to that symbolic link I get: "Too many levels of
> symbolic links." 

Are you sure that ``ls /'' gives you the results you expect? Perhaps
you're chrooting them into their home directories.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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