home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!mudhoney!lindner
- From: lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
- Subject: Re: Gopher and Symbolic links
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.162253.7322@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: mudhoney.micro.umn.edu
- Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- References: <1992Dec31.051621.3293@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Dec31.141242.28769@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:22:53 GMT
- Lines: 25
-
- In <1992Dec31.141242.28769@midway.uchicago.edu> rich@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Rich Long) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec31.051621.3293@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- >lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) writes:
- >>
- >> The solution to most Unix gopher daemon problems 1/2 :-)
- >>
- >> use the -c option..
- >> --
-
- >Ok, the man page says this does not do a chroot and will allow symbolic
- >links to anything anywhere, but doesn't chroot follow symbolic links that
- >are below the new root? This should work like anonymous ftp then which
- >also does a chroot. So, if the symbolic links are contained within the
- >gopher data directory shouldn't the links be visible without the -c
- >option? Thanx...
-
- Oh, I see, symbolic links *within* the gopher-data directory should be
- followed no matter what.. Use -c if you want to link outside the
- gopher-data directory.
- --
- | Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu | Slipping into madness
- | | Computer & Information Services | is good for the sake
- | Gophermaster | University of Minnesota | of comparision.
- ///// / / / /////// / / / / / / / / //// / / / / / / / /
-