From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 19:19:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC5A1065674 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:19:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA778FC16 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iagz16 with SMTP id z16so8582878iag.13 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:19:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wrRGVfwp1yicASyHmaQBaJNn9y9C8CJkLb7jq5G11Sw=; b=KTiUGN39dGIdY9+ExY+nUKURBl+8dTWfxEjk070FCTsungP1wiXo31Cs1Y8qIAVqcc P8a56Y/lLATkw+RnzNQ5sf4N4qtgTIGUezmGVSG7plrehvbhEFyBgDzTQzPqpvLStIwu 7plkHyFY5RnTu/k7Y2YjsZYsD2GUtJjN0JBcE= Received: by 10.42.142.129 with SMTP id s1mr14872756icu.42.1326827942523; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:19:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.207.7 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:18:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F14F4FF.902@erdgeist.org> References: <4F14F4FF.902@erdgeist.org> From: Chris Rees Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:18:31 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4f5dc0JRE6Cd81q3hJSd1siSC9w Message-ID: To: Dirk Engling Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bumping a pet bug X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:19:03 -0000 On 17 January 2012 04:11, Dirk Engling 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