Anon FTP usually (at least in IRIX) chroots a directory so what you
think is the / in ftp is not the same as for a regular user. Thus even
though the symlink is there it points to a non-existent directory (at
least from the point of view of FTP).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Danen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 1:06 AM
> To: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List
> Subject: [expert] anonymous ftp
>
>
> I've got the anonftp package installed and everything is
> working fine..
> the only problem I have is with symlinks... I'm not sure what kind of
> permissions I should have on stuff... basically, I tried symlinking
> /home/ftp/pub/custom to /files/custom which then contains
> subdirectories
> which contain custom RPM files I've made. The problem is,
> when I ftp in
> as anonymous, I can't do a cd /pub/custom because the server
> tells me it's
> not there, yet when I do a cd /pub it shows up as "custom@ ->
> /files/custom"... I changed the permissions on /files/*
> (recursive) to
> "root.ftp" and still nothing...
>
> Am I missing something here? Using wu ftp server, stock
> Helios install.
> Help!
>
> Vincent Danen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . ICQ: 16978834
> BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta
> Stronghold Enterprises/X BBS . http://shx.tzo.net
> Telnet://shx.tzo.net . Weblogin-http://shx.tzo.net/shx
>
