Thank you - excellent Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: "Our cause is health. Our passion is service. We?re here to make lives better.?
?Never attribute to malice what can be caused by miscommunication.? NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. Thank you. From: "Edmund R. MacKenty" <ed.macke...@rocketsoftware.com> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/20/2009 07:29 AM Subject: Re: Setting up a FTP server to server Linux Distributions - advice needed Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 10:17, Lionel B Dyck wrote: >I want to setup a linux server to be an ftp server for linux >distributions. ... >My questions are: > >1. is there a way to change the vsftp ftp 'root' location to my new mount >point >and >2. make the loop mounts permanent I can't help you with the first question because I don't know vsftp, but I'm sure there's a configuration parameter for that somewhere. As for the second question: put a new line into /etc/fstab, something like this: /dev/loop0 /isos/image1.iso iso9660 ro,loop 0 0 That will make the loop mount get set up at boot-time. - MacK. ----- Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390