Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:34:13 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear? Message-ID: <44k4uecvay.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <972F1E78-A410-4398-8428-38331578C66C@identry.com> (John Almberg's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:46:09 -0500") References: <972F1E78-A410-4398-8428-38331578C66C@identry.com>
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John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> writes: > I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, using something like: > > ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www > > This works great, but something is deleting the soft link. > > Is there anything in the freebsd base that 'cleans up' the /var/log directory? Any hints on how I can discover what is doing this clean up, or a way to protect this link from being deleted? When does it happen? Without knowing that, we're pretty much into wild-guess territory. That said, my wild guess is that it happens at installworld time and there's something strange in your mtree file for var. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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