On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:20:00PM +0100, EASY
steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk wrote:
> > It looks like some of your smtpd(8) master.cf entries are chrooted and
> > others are not. You should use the unchrooted pathname in both cases,
> > and make a symlink:
> >
> > /home/mail/email/home/mail/email -> /
> >
> > so that the same pathname works in both cases.
> >
> That sounds plausible enough to me. I'm sure I read that symlinks and
> chrooting was carnage - but I'm willing to give anything a go. It's not
> going to bring down the space station :-)
>
> My only confusion is where do I put the symlink. To make matters a
> struggle for me I'm dyslexic so please forgive me a little as I'm
> struggling to follow this: /home/mail/email/home/mail/email - I see the
> same things twice and this locks me up a bit.
Exactly as written, the symlink is /home/mail/email/home/mail/email and
it points to "/".
# mkdir -p /home/mail/email/home/mail
# ln -s / /home/mail/email/home/mail/email
in the chroot jail, this results in /home/mail/email/private/foo being
the same as /private/foo.
--
Viktor.
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