Re: Symbolic Link

[Erik Lotspeich <erik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cris,

HFS+ does not support hard links, so that would explain that problem.
Hard links aren't a great idea anyway since it's hard to know where other
links to a particular file exist on the filesystem.

I haven't had much trouble with symbolic links and FTP, but I agree with
Nitai that they aren't the greatest idea.  The problem is that if you have
the following situation:

/Library/WebServer/WebSites/www.domain.com/directory -> /somewhereelse

If the user goes into "directory" and then tries to use ".." to get back
to the "www.domain.com" directory, he'll really be in "/", not in
/Library/WebServer/WebSites/www.domain.com.

This is confusing to most users and can also bring the user to places on
the filesystem where he can see more than he should.

Hope this helps,

Erik.

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Cris wrote:

> I'm having a problem with ftp'ing into my webserver and being able to access
> a directory under a Symbolic link.
>
> I can access it fine in the terminal althogh the ftp client shows it as a
> file and not a link.?
>
> the default site is setup to be a link to the Documents folder and it has
> the same problem.
>
> using  ln -d  doesn't work.. so it won't make a "hard link" although
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thanx
>
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