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  1. Xref: sparky comp.unix.sys5.r4:870 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5682 comp.unix.sysv386:17512
  2. Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.sysv386
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!gator!larry
  4. From: larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
  5. Subject: Re: BSD ftpd doesn't work?
  6. Message-ID: <BzGFqz.55M@news.rn.com>
  7. Organization: Gator Communications - Feeds-R-Us 219-289-3745 
  8. References: <BzC0zD.G0y@ddsw1.mcs.com> <BzD6un.2JB@news.rn.com> <BzFMA4.EwD@wimsey.bc.ca>
  9. Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:23:23 GMT
  10. Lines: 14
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  12. skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam) writes:
  13.  
  14. >This actually has to do with the fact that anonymous FTP runs while
  15. >chroot()'ed to the anonymous FTP directory.  Since symbolic links are
  16. >intrepreted during access and by that time the anonymous FTP directory
  17. >had already become the root directory, what the links originally pointed
  18. >to are unreachable.
  19.  
  20. Yes, I now know this.  Is there a way to automount these directories
  21. somehow to off /home/ftp/pub?
  22.  
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  24. Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
  25. keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
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