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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>
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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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