From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 19:12:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27783 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:12:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA17410; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:41:38 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA11025; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:41:29 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980830114129.Q17530@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:41:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kevin Kyeong-il CHOI , FreeBSD Question Subject: Re: How to ftp the symbolic linked files ? References: <003701bdd105$f0be31c0$52099584@pc-kichoi.cst.cnes.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <003701bdd105$f0be31c0$52099584@pc-kichoi.cst.cnes.fr>; from Kevin Kyeong-il CHOI on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 05:26:47PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 26 August 1998 at 17:26:47 +0200, Kevin Kyeong-il CHOI wrote: > Does anyone know how to transfer via FTP some symbolic linked files? > > When I try, it tells me on FreeBSD > "No such file or directory" > and it doesn't send this symbolic link. I assume you're doing this with anonymous ftp. Anonymous ftp issues a chroot(2), which means that the effective root file system is the home directory of the user ftp, usually /var/spool/ftp. Any symbolic link must be relative to this directory, but normally that means you don't need a symlink: you could use a normal ("hard") link and have less confusion. 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