[PC-BSD Support] disappering symlinks

[cynique]

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


> ------Original Message------
> From: USM Bish
> Sender: support-bounces at lists.pcbsd.org
> To: cynique
> Cc: support at lists.pcbsd.org
> 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
> initial installation.  I do not  run on  a server, just  on my
> laptop, but  with recurrent boots  and much shorter  uptime, I
> have faced no such issue. My /etc/passwd works on the symlinks
> stated without any issues:
> 
> [bish at pcbsd ~]$ ls -al /home
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8 Mar 14 17:11 /home -> /usr/home
> [bish at pcbsd ~]$ ls -al /Programs
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  13 Dec  5 19:37 /Programs -> /usr/Programs
> [bish at pcbsd ~]$ cat /etc/passwd | grep bish
> bish:*:1001:1001:USM Bish:/home/bish:/usr/local/bin/bash
> [bish at pcbsd ~]$
> 
>  >
> [ some more snipped ]
>  >
>  > so  my question  is: does  anyone please  have any  idea why
>  > those symlinks are disappearing?
>  >
> 
> If they are disappearing after reboot, then there must be some
> 'rm' somewhere  in the  boot processes  within /etc  or during
> startup of  /PCBSD scripts, which  has come in  with something
> that has  been installed  later. This should  not happen  on a
> running system !
> 
> Just a guess ...
> 
> Bish
> 
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