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From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de>
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Hi,

what the hell is this:

emoenke@ftp:6 23:50:04 /mirr/bin > cd 
/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE
emoenke@ftp:6 00:14:33 /ftp/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE > dir
insgesamt 536
drwxr-xr-x   20 emoenke  ftp          4096 2004-02-25 09:04 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 emoenke  ftp          4096 2004-06-19 04:50 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 emoenke  ftp             1 2004-07-24 16:31 5.2.1-RELEASE -> .
drwxr-xr-x    2 emoenke  ftp          4096 2004-02-25 08:54 base
...

It leads to lots of unwanted errors.
rsyncd is claiming:

2004/08/06 00:53:42 [6722] readlink
"releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-
RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE
/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-
RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE
/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-
RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE
/5.2.1-RELEASE/packages/Latest/nessus-devel.tbz" (in FreeBSD) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

and it is producing lots of endless loops in other scenarios, too.

Please give your children a smaller sandbox to play, not the big one.

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)