[gopher] Re: Linking a directory to gopher dir

[David Allen <mda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:19:40PM +0000, Luis Oliveira wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What I wanted to do was to create a link in /var/gopher to another
> containing a collection of file (say, /usr/share/images/wallpapers)
> 
> I did ln -s /usr/share/images/wallpapers /var/gopher/wallpapers
> 
> But it doesn't show up when I'm browsing my gopher site... how can I do
> this?

Are you running your server using chroot()?  If so, this locks your
server in a "jail" that symbolic links can't escape IIRC.

Check the manpage for your gopherd, and if you're running chroot()'ed,
it will work if you drop the chroot().  (Note that there are security
implications to this, so you may want to read up on chroot())

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