Bumping a pet bug

[Chris Rees]

On 17 January 2012 04:11, Dirk Engling <erdgeist at 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=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.

Hmm...

# Transitional symlink for old binaries

Can we just remove this?

Chris