I'm not a maintainer....

Hard links could not cross partitions in some versions of Unix
so a simple copy sounds better.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From:   Michael Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Thu 3/11/2004 6:24 AM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:     
Subject:        Re: [Openca-Users] SCEPs pkiclient.exe needs to be hard linked

Michael Portz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My installation: Fedora 1 (includes apache httpd version 2.0.48),
> Openca-0.9.2-RC3, online/offline installed on one server in
> different directories.
> 
> Playing around with the SCEP interface I got the following error
> message in the httpd-error log:
> 
> Thu Mar 11 [...] Symbolic link not allowed: .../cgi-bin/scep/pkiclient.exe
> 
> Replacing the softlink in the abovementioned directory by a hard
> link solved the problem for me.

"Symbolic link not allowed" is an errormessage from your Apache because 
the options FollowSymlinks or SymlinkMustMatchOwner (these are not the 
exact names) are not set to +. The default configuration of the most 
apaches forbids symlinks.

A question for package maintainers, does it be problem to use hard 
links? I think download.cer in the public interface has the same 
problem. LN_S is a default variable of autoconf. LN for hard links is 
not supported by autoconf. The other option would be a simple copy. Any 
arguments pro and cons for hard links vs. simple copy vs. symlinks?

Michael
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