Adam Lang wrote: > Hello. Having a problem that I haven't been able to find out exactly why it > is happening. > > I am logged in as superuser and in the home directory. I open ftp to > another one of my servers using a non-su account on the other server (which > the account name exists on originating server as well). > > I do a send using absolute path to the file in a different directory. I get > permission denied. Now, if I cd to the directory the file resides then > start ftp, I can send it fine. > > Any ideas? If you "put" a file using an absolute path, it uses that path for both the local and remote filenames, so the account needs permission to write to the specified directory on the server. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
