[ILUG] bind mounts in fstab

Fergal Moran fergal at byefield.com
Sat Jan 10 19:14:46 GMT 2004


On Fri, 09 Jan 2004, John P. Looney wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:48:15AM -0800, Justin Mason mentioned:
> > blimey!  what's wrong with a symbolic link?
> 
>  chrooting programs like proftpd don't like them.
> 
>  I have:
> 
> /var/www/livinghistory  /home/admins/livinghistory.ie  none rw,bind 0 0
> /var/www/moghroith.net  /home/admins/moghroith.org     none rw,bind 0 0
> /var/mailman            /home/admins/mailman           none rw,bind 0 0
I've been doing this for a while now on our servers for exactly the
same reason and was disgusted with myself for not being able to come
up with the "Right Way (TM)".  Cool!

Fergal.



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