Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:18:31 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bumping a pet bug Message-ID: <CADLo83-K17aB75Ygrb9O%2B5RF8ffumSQikbfPeiTAgCCAmcEh1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F14F4FF.902@erdgeist.org> References: <4F14F4FF.902@erdgeist.org>
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On 17 January 2012 04:11, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> wrote: > Dear rc team, > > I know your time is precious, but there is an annoying bug in rc.d/jail > that keeps littering my (and my user's) servers with stray soft links > whenever we start jails. > > I've described the bug two years ago here > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dconf/143084 > > and even conveniently applied a simple and effective patch. > > tl;dr: If rc.d/jail can not access $_devdir, a soft link is created in > ./log =3D> ../var/run/log =A0no matter where I was. > > Unfortunally I am still busy answering emails from users of ezjail who > first look for the problem with themselves, then blame it on ezjail and > finally complain about FreeBSD. Also I have to clean up my systems from > all the littering links called "log" pointing nowhere. > > If please a committer could take the five minutes to look into the bug > and fix the problem, he could save me and my users a lot of trouble and > time. Hmm... # Transitional symlink for old binaries Can we just remove this? Chris
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