Wednesday, March 17, 2004 @ 10:12:49 AM Central Standard Time Hi All. I have a small issue I cannot seem to resolve over here. I am trying to make some things available on a public FTP server. The things I am trying to make available are on a different partition, than the normal content of the FTP (document root). Using Proftp 1.2.9. Added the "DefaultRoot ~" option to keep users & anonymous "jailed" (I really don't want people to wander out of their area). There is not enough drive capacity to just simply copy the material into the public FTP area. Due to the chroot "Jailed" option (DefaulRoot ~), I cannot add a symlink to the material (will not work). To get around this, I manually made a duplicate mount point in the FTP area to the new material. I issued the following: (the default ftp document root dir is /home/ftp) mkdir /home/ftp/new-stuff mount --bind /var/for-ftp/new-stuff /home/ftp/new-stuff this works great. I log into the FTP as "anonymous", ls, cd into new-stuff, everything is their, & I am happy :) So, to finish the job, I want to add this command to the system start-up config, so this will always be available. I added the following to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local (Slackware) file: mount --bind /var/for-ftp/new-stuff /home/ftp/new-stuff I reboot the box to make sure all is well, log into the FTP, cd into new-stuff, nothing is their, & I am Sad :( I checked & checked & moved where the command loads in my rc.local, but no good. When the systems boots, I can log in & manually issue the command & it works again. What am I doing wrong? I cannot figure out why this command will not work in my rc.local? Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks & Kind Regards, Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars West Longitude 90' 15' 43" http://b-o-b.homelinux.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list