vsftp and proftp
 

Hi folks, happy new year to you all.

As my hd space is dwindling again! I wanted to use symlinks, in my annon ftp dir. I was running vsftp, but everyone says it can't be done. So I have changed to proftpd.

I link to the annon ftp server on my website. I get the dir listing, with symlinks, but try to follow them I get error 550, it don't exist.

I have read http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Chroot.html, but after following the advice here. I get the same error.

I have not tried the mount bind option, as I want symlinks or hard links either will do.

Could some one give me apointer as to how to do this please.

oh Ubuntu jaunty

Where do you want the symlinks pointing? The Linux chroot works in a way, that the symlink targets are relative to the chroot, so you might reconsider that.

Even though I have been using ubuntu for over a year now, there's still plenty to learn. chroot for example in my case.

I got around the problem, by mounting a "spare" drive in the ftp root ie

/home/ftp

now under /home/ftp/space

where I have mounted /dev/sda2 space or whatever it is.

what would have like is:

/home/ftp/pub/symlink->morespace with this pointing to
~/otherdisk/ftp

obviously sda2 would have been mounted at otherdisk, and a ftp dir would have been on it. it showed up, on dir list, but wouldn't change to it.

Bind mount
 

Do a search for bind mount, it works much like symlinks but works across the chroot boundary.