From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.72]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BkyAR-0006g0-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:48:23 -0400 Received: from jaybird.no-ip.info ([65.80.130.233]) by imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040715044752.RUTE1737.imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net@jaybird.no-ip.info> for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:47:52 -0400 Received: from h2c8f0 (unknown [192.168.0.101]) by jaybird.no-ip.info (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D1A7163B for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:47:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000701c46a26$e30d07c0$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> From: "Jayson Smith" To: "Speakup" References: <000b01c46954$d449eb40$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> <20040714040020.GA4927@romuald.net.eu.org> <000701c46958$85dcdfe0$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> <20040714045033.GA5416@romuald.net.eu.org> <001501c46970$ad2ede00$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> <20040714173826.GA13425@romuald.net.eu.org> <000701c469ca$b7e27b40$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> <20040714182556.GA13865@romuald.net.eu.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:47:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: Proftpd question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jayson Smith , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:48:23 -0000 A few questions. First, the link is a symbolic link. Would making it a hard link fix the problem? How do you make a hard link? Also, is there a way to find out, in numeric terms, the permissions of a file or directory? Keeping up with what 755, rwx--r--r or whatever, etc. means when compared to each other is a bit difficult for me at times. Jayson. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: "Jayson Smith" ; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:25 PM Subject: Re: Proftpd question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This could be due to the permissions and ownership of > /var/www/dectalk. It should be owned by root, with a group of root, > and 755 permissions. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:48:05PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > That fixed it but I've got another problem. When I log in anonymously > > locally using ncftp, I can see a directory called dectalk@ but can't change > > to that directory. When logging in via my Windows machine I get an empty > > directory listing. I do have a symlink to /var/www/dectalk in /home/ftp. > > That, in fact, is the only thing there. But I can't get to it. I went into > > my proftpd.conf and commented out the line about chrooting everybody into > > their home dir. Any thoughts? > > Jayson. > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA9Xq07s9z/XlyUyARAqKzAJ9PRJ/JOx+XFK7nFeUAcS38zC45BgCgwhXp > efkcDL6kyEYyqPdU52A9VF0= > =m0ap > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----