home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30 / NN_1992_30.iso / spool / comp / unix / sys5 / r4 / 882 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-12-21  |  1.1 KB
  1. Xref: sparky comp.unix.sys5.r4:882 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5691 comp.unix.sysv386:17531
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!barmar
  3. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.sysv386
  5. Subject: Re: BSD ftpd doesn't work?
  6. Date: 19 Dec 1992 04:15:49 GMT
  7. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
  8. Lines: 13
  9. Message-ID: <1gu7llINNaau@early-bird.think.com>
  10. References: <BzD6un.2JB@news.rn.com> <BzFMA4.EwD@wimsey.bc.ca> <BzGFqz.55M@news.rn.com>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com
  12.  
  13. In article <BzGFqz.55M@news.rn.com> larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
  14. >Yes, I now know this.  Is there a way to automount these directories
  15. >somehow to off /home/ftp/pub?
  16.  
  17. The -M option to automount specifies a directory to use instead of
  18. /tmp_mnt.  Make sure that the pathname /home/ftp/pub/home/ftp/pub is a
  19. symlink back to ../../.., so that the symlinks the automounter creates will
  20. work within the chroot'ed environment as well.
  21. -- 
  22. Barry Margolin
  23. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  24.  
  25. barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
  26.