Subject: Links in the anonymous FTP on RS6000 (AIX 3.2.5)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 08:59:17 -0600 (CST)

Ya all did such a great job on my last problem, I've got another
one for ya.

If I setup a link in /u/ftp to somewhere outside of /u/ftp, it
doesn't seem to work.  Let's try an example.

Suppose I'm in /u/ftp and do the following:
  ln -fs /u/nau/CoolStuff CoolStuff

One would hope that /u/ftp/CoolStuff would point to
/u/nau/CoolStuff.  It doesn't to the anonymous user.
Instead it points to /u/ftp/u/nau/CoolStuff.  Kinda
useless.

After reading the docs, I'm pretty sure it's not supposed
to work that way.  They use links in the docs that extend
outside of the /u/ftp structure.

Any ideas?

Oh yea, I'm running this on an RS6000 (AIX 3.2.5).  Also,
I believe the same problem existed before we switched to
wu-ftpd.

Thanks.

-- 
William R. Nau
Supercomputer Systems Engineering and Services Company (SSESCO)
511 11th Avenue South, Suite 216
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415-1536

Phone: 612-342-0003,  Email: [email-masked],  WWW: http://www.SSESCO.com