Bumping a pet bug
Dirk Engling
erdgeist at erdgeist.org
Tue Jan 17 04:38:29 UTC 2012
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=conf/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 => ../var/run/log no 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.
Thanks in advance,
erdgeist
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