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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:42:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        unixnoob@charter.net
Cc:        jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu ('Jerry McAllister'), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Link Help Plz :) --no such file or dir???????
Message-ID:  <200211142142.gAELguw21489@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000001c28c25$65f09760$0a00a8c0@papabear> from "RD" at Nov 14, 2002 04:32:56 PM

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> 
> 
> i did it your way and i get 550 error      says no such file or dir
> any more suggestions?
> RD

Well, if it is from ftp, you probably have ftp set up to not allow
them outside of their own directory - which is a normal thing to do.

Check out ftp documentation.  There is lots both in man and
tutorials on the net.  Do some Google searches and some archive
and FAQ searches.

////jerry

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: unixnoob@charter.net
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Link Help Plz :)
> 
> > Wuzzup guys,
> >  
> >   I've found a few achived mails about linking to directories... I'm 
> > still confused a bit here...
> > 
> > --------babybear-p200-128rm---------
> > 6-gig hdd for FreeBSD
> > 40-gig hdd mounted at /www
> > 80-gig hdd mounted at /myftp
> > 
> > What I have is ftpusers home dir at /www/home/userdir
> > I need a link inside their home dir that takes them to /myftp for read
> 
> > only.
> > 
> >   Ln   [options]  link_name?    link_to_dir?
> > 
> > I'm not sure about the correct options...
> 
>   '-s'   as in:
>   ln -s /home/some/dir lnname
> 
> > 
> > Some give me a couple examples tx
> 
> try   'man ln'
> 
> and read only means you set permissions to only allow read
> 
> check out  'man chmod'
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > 
> > rd
> > 
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