>Number:         7186
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       sysinst was stripping '/'s from ftp path names.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 17 21:05:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Seebach
>Organization:
>Release:        Mar 15 1999
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD chest.plethora.net 1.3K NetBSD 1.3K (CHEST) #0: Wed Mar 17 08:02:32 CST 1999 seebs@chest.plethora.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CHEST i386


>Description:
	I was using ftp to grab files that were not relative to the home
	directory of the user I wanted to have grabing the files, thus,
	the path name was something like
		/home/seebs/ic/netbsd/snap
	and sysinst kept trying to open them in
		home/seebs/ic/netbsd/snap
	i.e., in /home/glinda/home/seebs/ic/netbsd/snap

	(Workaround was to ln -s /home home in user's home directory)
>How-To-Repeat:
	Put distribution files in a directory not under the home directory
	of the user you wish to grab them as.
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: