Re: Symbolic links and FTP
On 13 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to properly create
> a link from the anonymous ftp/pub directory
> to another directory located on the same or
> on a different file system.
>
> You can't create symbolic links out of the anonftp directory, at least
> not working ones. This is because the daemon runs "chroot"ed to
> /home/ftp. See chroot(2,8) for details.
>
> You can, however, create hard links to files on the same filesystem
> (but not on other filesystems). Use ln(1) or cp -l to do this.
>
If you ran out of space in /home/ftp, you may mount a partition in the
appopiate place, eg mount /dev/hdan /home/ftp/pub/debian/hamm
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<rmag@simula.efis.ucr.ac.cr> Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR.
(The Physics Dept. University of Costa Rica.)
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