On 11/21/2012 10:54 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote:
On 11/21/2012 8:37 PM, Kevin VPN wrote:
Secondly, on one version of OS X, the Shrew Soft VPN client install
accidentally overwrote the symbolic link to the the /etc directory,
making the system unusable after a reboot. (Fortunately I was able to
repair it using the OS X install CD filesystem repair.)
Kevin,
I actually hadn't noticed that /etc is a symlink to /private/etc. Is it
that way on all versions of OSX or is that just a Lion thing? The pkg
system I use is Iceburg. Initially we started out with the Apple Xcode
packaging software, but it was so awfully buggy I had to go with the
alternative. It's configured to copy the file into /etc so I'm not sure
why it would overwrite the symlink. But if that's the normal directory
structure, it could be installed to /private/etc instead. I'm by no
means an OSX expert, so I'm not sure if that would be the right thing to
do or not.
Hi Matthew,
IIRC, I experienced the problem on Snow Leopard 10.6, but it may have
actually been a Leopard 10.5 machine (it was an older box). Regardless,
it's been symlinked that way for a while now.
However, I don't think the problem shows up all the time, since
otherwise the list would be chock full of reports of the Shrew OS X
build bricking their boxes.
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