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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:41:29 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kevin Kyeong-il CHOI <kevin.choi@cnes.fr>, FreeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to ftp the symbolic linked files ?
Message-ID:  <19980830114129.Q17530@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <003701bdd105$f0be31c0$52099584@pc-kichoi.cst.cnes.fr>; from Kevin Kyeong-il CHOI on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 05:26:47PM %2B0200
References:  <003701bdd105$f0be31c0$52099584@pc-kichoi.cst.cnes.fr>

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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
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