On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:07:21AM +0100, James Stevenson wrote: <snip> > > > 2. What are the circumstances where symbolic links do not work? I love > > symbolic links but some utilities such as "tftp" doesn't follow the link. > > This is usually frustrating since it takes time to determine what the > > problem since most things work. (even NFS exported mounts) > > Either the file that the link is to does not exist > Or the program has used lstat to check if its a link and > then that would be an application specific program with > why the link doesnt work. Probably, in the case of tftp, the program is chrooted, and can't access the file that the symlink points to. -- Eduardo
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