Why does ftp fail with error "Couldn't canonicalise No such file or directory" ?

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Issue

[root@server1 ~]$ sftp user@x.x.x.x
Connecting to x.x.x.x...
sftp> ls -l
drwxrwxrwx    2 3002     1952        24576 Jan 13 18:05 log
lrwxrwxrwx    1 3036     1953           19 Jan 15 18:53 work
sftp> cd work
Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • vsftpd-2.2.2-13.el6_6.1.x86_64

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