On 7/21/06, Joachim Selke <selke(a)thi.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
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Tomas Mraz wrote:
>> (3) Every application using digital certificates (and capable of
>> checking certs against a list of trusted CA certs) creates the
>> directories /etc/pki/$appname/private, /etc/pki/$appname/public and
>> /etc/pki/$appname/cacerts for storing certs. The last one by default is
>> a symlink pointing to /etc/pki/cacerts.
>
> AFAIK directory as symlink in a package creates problems on package
> upgrades so it would be best to leave them simply as empty directories.
What kind of problems do you mean? Looking e.g. in /etc I see many
directory symlinks.
The problem is if you later want to make the sym-link into a
directory. That is the reason for the many directory symlinks...
someone forgets to make a directory and creates a symlink and poof you
can't later decide on having a directory.
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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator