Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:44:13 -0300 From: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com> To: Freebsd Mail Lists Reader <freebsd@romukr.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solved - Setting up local FTP server for installation - Solved Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980416124402.00951620@pop.mpc.com.br>
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At 02:41 PM 4/16/98 +0300, Freebsd Mail Lists Reader wrote: >Hello > >You can either make a link, pointing from home dir of >your ftp site (from /var/ftp/pub in your case) to the directory, >where install is located, didn't work. FBSD says it cant make a link to a directory (????) > or you can also move your ftp site >to some other partition by changing home directory of ftp user >in passwd database (with vipw command). If you'll move, don't >forget to move the whole structure of the ftp server, including >bin and etc dirs. > >Hope I've got your problem right :-) Yes ! The last one worked fine. The steps: cd /var/ftp cp * /usr/server/free225 [changed FTP's root directory using vipw] and voila ! All the files under my 2.2.5-RELEASE were recognized OK ! New system up and running ! > >------------------------------------- >Vlad Usenko <vlad@romukr.kiev.ua> >Romantis-Ukraine Satellite Communications >Communication Systems and Services > > >> Hi All ! >> >> I am trying to set up my 2.2.5 box to be the FTP server that will provide >> the files to an FTP install. >> >> I've got all the files on my HD, but I can't move them to /var/ftp/pub due >> to lack of space. >> >> how do I set up ftpd to see where files are ? >> >> TKS ! >> >> 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
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