> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wtrovijo > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FTP-Client(PC)/Server(M/F) > > > Ron, > > "dir /" will ALWAYS show system root filesystem; that's a > unix standard. There are several ftp clients - even for free > - that do allows you to setup local and remote homes and run > commands after startup. Another way is to use -s:file flag > with windows command line ftp. The downside of this approach > is that first 2 lines of the file must be the userid and password. > > Walter Trovijo Jr.
Some ftp servers (in particular vsfptd) do a chroot() to change the client process's "root" to be the user's home subdirectory. In this case, "/" is not the global root, but is the base of the chroot()'ed subdirectory. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
