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cynique | 6 Apr 2009 07:51

Re: disappering symlinks

thank you both for answers.

i didn't reboot the box after the installation. for reboots i have my
windows desktop box -)

Kris Moore wrote:
> We don't ship any scripts that monkey with the various symlinks here. My guess would be that some 3rd party
program is removing them. What did you install via ports on this system?

i'm aware of that and i don't want to blame pcbsd. i doubt it has
something in common with default installation. why would you somewhere
in the system remove symlinks that are needed for proper working? that
would be silly.

i have installed tons of ports - i have openvpn/openssh, samba,
pure-ftpd, squid, several jails with apache/mysql/php and for boinc and
similar stuph. then i use the machine as a torrent downloader, mail and
im client (alpine, centerim). everything in cli, i use no gui. 'pkg_info
 | wc -l' gives 765 packages, i can list them all, if it might help. my
initial idea was it's because of a hacker attack but after network
disconnect and some offline checks i think that it's not this case.

anyway i was just hoping someone had this issue before.

petr

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Kris Moore | 5 Apr 2009 23:42

Re: disappering symlinks


We don't ship any scripts that monkey with the various symlinks here. My guess would be that some 3rd party
program is removing them. What did you install via ports on this system?

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Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Support] disappering symlinks
Sent: Apr 5, 2009 1:57 PM

cynique wrote:
 >
[ some snipped ]
 >
 > 1st issue
 > ---------
 > after  some  twiddling   (installing,  ifconfig  up/down)  i
 > couldn't  login  as a  normal  user  (via  ssh and  even  on
 > console).  only  root  worked.  i  figured  out  that  ~home
 > symbolic  link (to  /usr/home)  disappeared and  /etc/passwd
 > entries were  pointing to  nowhere. thus  no login.  after i
 > setup back  the symbolic  link everything works  fine. after
 > this i rewrote /etc/passwd to  point to /usr/home instead of
 > /home.
 >

I am also a relative newcomer to PC-BSD, and no authority, but
these sumlinks to  /home and /Programs are by  default, set at

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