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Mount --bind versus symlinks

Linux server /www/website directory is my html directory Want users to ftp to /user/website/public_html directory which is chrooted and limited to ftp only access I currently accomplish this via sudo mount --bind /www/website…
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Relative symlink within a symlinked directory

I have an installed application in /home/appuser/app/ In that directory there is a separate directory confs for the config files, which is symlinked to ../app-confs, like so: lrwxrwxrwx 1 appuser appuser 19 Mar 25 15:22 confs ->…
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Backup Server using Greyhole and BackupPC

I'm setting up an Ubuntu box to backup one of our servers using BackupPC. I've got 2x 2tb hard drives and I've set up Greyhole to duplicate the data from the samba share /mnt/samba/backups across both drives incase of failure. I need to set BackupPC…
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Determine If This Is A Symbolic Link

I'm in the process of getting a second server connected to a Dell MD3000i. I'm trying to do it the exact same way the server before it was setup. It has a folder in the C Drive that goes virtual volume on the SAN. I believe this is a Symbolic…
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While using an ntfs smb share for mac users, do symbolic links and extended attributes work?

We have a majority of mac users but we'd rather support their file sharing using a Windows server with an ntfs drive, or at least a Linux server with ext3. We've had trouble, much trouble, utilizing the OS X server software and after the years are…
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Is there a way to disable symbolic links for nginx auto-indexed directory?

I would like to configure nginx to list and serve bulk files from a select directory (autoindex on option). However I worry that if a symbolic link will be accidentally placed in such a directory, all files in the filesystem may become externally…
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script not run after reboot from /etc/rc3.d

I create symbolic link to the file - /etc/rc3.d/platform.bash from /var/tmp/platform.bash ln -s /var/tmp/platform.bash /etc/rc3.d/platform.bash script exist under /var/tmp : -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 58442 Aug 30 08:49…
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Tar dereference only 1 level

I use the following pseudo-script to create a TAR of my installed software mkdir tmp ln -s /path/to/app1/bin tmp/app1 ln -s /and/path/going/to/the-app-2 tmp/app2 tar -c --dereference -f apps.tar tmp I need the --dereference option…
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Re-creating 'lost' symbolic links

Due to copying some files from Linux to Windows XP and then to Linux again, the metadata or whatever that turns some files into a symbolic link has been lost. So for example I have a file called "example" which should be a symbolic link to…
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missing symbolic link

I have two directories with multiple directories and files Lets say that directory A has some symbolic links to other directories and files and directory B is missing them. What can I do to copy those missing links to directory B recursively I am…
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How do I create a symbolic link to a UNC Path in Windows XP

I have a workstation with Windows XP and I need to make a symbolic link or mount a UNC Path like a local Drive. I need the same behavior that produces M-Daemon tools when you mount an .iso File but with a remote directory. This is because I have a…
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Find linux soft link

We have an ExpressionEngine installation. The CSS templates are stored in a directory called /na_cms/expressionengine/templates/default_site/c.group When EE parses these out, the path becomes /css/c EE does not change the path, I'm reckoning it is a…
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Sharing a symlinked (`mklink /d`) directory via SMB?

I have a Windows 7 amd64 box where one directory is shared: local path is d:\drop\ remote path is \\aloism\drop from SMB point of view, Everyone has Read and Write permission ACLs for the folder are set so that all authenticated users have read and…
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Dreamweaver not recognizing symbolic link as directory

I have this directory drwxrwxr-x 6 awdfiles pasgroup 4096 Jan 31 17:20 awdfiles Which I want to access via another FTP connection. The user is part of the pasgroup I traverse to the root html directory of my desired…
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Root Relative Symbolic Links Not Resolving Properly (Windows)

According to the MSDN Documentation on Creating Symbolic Links, root relative symbolic links (those starting with "\") should resolve relative to the drive that the symlink is accessed from. I have a bunch of such root relative symlinks on a…
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