rdist-6.1.5-32 fails to process symlinks

Travis Abbott tabbott at cms-stl.com
Thu May 20 21:38:44 UTC 2004


	Don't know if anyone has already noticed this, but the rdistd from the rdist 
package that comes with FC2 can't create symlinks. If you try and rdist 
symlinks TO the FC2 machine, it will always fail with a "File exists" error. 
This is caused by the switch from 'mktemp()' (which just creates a tmp 
filename string) to 'mkstemp()' (creates string and opens file) between the 
rdist in FC1 and FC2. Posted the bug and solution along with more details on 
bugzilla  (bug# 123833, 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123833).

-travis





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