Hard links have strict rules. They must be on the same filesystem. If your home directories are not all on the same file system, you make want to maintain a few copies (one on each filesystem). After doing this, repeat to yourself several times "I hate hard links... I hate hard links..." Jay On Wednesday 06 November 2002 10:38 pm, Erik Anderson wrote: > Dan/Jay - thanks for the idea. I tried hard linking, but I get an > "Operation not permitted" error. Here's the context I'm using: > > # ln -d /path/to/target /path/to/link > > -Erik > > Jay Kline wrote: > > Would hard links be an option? They can sometimes be a bit more difficult > > to administer, however. > > > > Jay > > > > On Wednesday 06 November 2002 3:26 pm, Erik Anderson wrote: > >>Hi all - I'm trying to set up an ftp server to allow our customers to > >>download softwarem, updates, yada yada, > >> > >>The idea is to, upon login, dump the users into their chrooted home dir, > >>which would contain some of our custom software, writted specifically > >>for them. This was easy to do.....now comes the catch: > >> > >>We want to also give them access to a "Common" directory as well. Any > >>ideas? > >> > >>I've thought about structuring the ftp tree as follows: > >> /Common > >> /cust1 > >> /cust2 > >> /cust3 > >>giving the customer only read access to their folder and the Common > >>folder....however, the management doesn't like the idea of presenting > >>our list of customers to the whole world. Soooo... > >> > >>Here was my second strategy: > >> /Common > >> /cust1 > >> > >> |_ symlink to Common > >> > >> /cust2 > >> > >> |_ symling to Common > >> > >>etc etc.....well that didn't work since the users were chrooted to their > >>home dirs. > >> > >>I'm stumped! > >> > >>Thanks- > >>Erik Anderson > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > >>Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com