ftp/shell script/symbollic links help

[james23]

Hi I need help, I'm trying to set up an ftp server which rotates the "root" directory for a specific account based on the current week of the month. It's an anonymous account. I'm currently using four scripts and cron.

Problem is that the symbollic links created when viewed in an ftp client is just a file, not a link to the directory intended. I can't use hard links since they're not allowed to be used in span file systems i.e. my external hdd.

I know in apache you can set it up so that it follows symbollic links, is there anything like this in the built in version of ftpd?

[howardm4]

part of the reason may be because for
an anonymous ftp account, the daemon
does a 'chroot' and effectively remaps '/'
so you probably can't get to your other drive.