RE: [Proftpd-user] "No such file or directory" on a symlink

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

james>I've seen that chroot issue a hundred times, I can't believe I didn't
james>look into it further ... I really wish that I could symlink so I can
james>keep the actual files organized in my webroot... oh well, looks like
james>I'll have to just point the web server into the ftp folder containing
james>the web.

  http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc/contrib/ProFTPD-mini-HOWTO-Chroot.html

In short, symlinks _can_ work within a chroot, depending on to where the
link points.  If you want something outside the chroot to be visible in
the chroot, then you need to play filesystem games.

TJ

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