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From: nelson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (J. Nelson Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Help with Anonymous FTP
Keywords: broke chroot
Message-ID: <7507@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 16:38:18 GMT
References: <9012@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: nelson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (J. Nelson Howell)
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In article <9012@stiatl.UUCP> chris@stiatl.UUCP (Chris Cheyney) writes:
>	...
>I've looked at the BSD FTP daemon source code and determined that the
>problem is a chroot() call failing.  The actual place where it fails is
>	...
>Does anyone have a clue why the chroot() call would be failing so
>	...

Chris,
	I recently had a similar problem porting a program that required
chroot().  The problem is that the alias $LOCAL wants to be set to /<local>
where <local> is your machine name.  The only thing required is that you
create a /<local> subdirectory within the directory that is to be the new
root.  It is documented, but crypticly under chroot().

J. Nelson Howell
System Programmer				nelson@midas.mgmt.purdue.edu
Krannert Gracuate School of Management		NELSON@PURCCVM.BITNET
Purdue University