Proprietary software always sucks. This time its the Cisco VPN client. It refuses to compile on FC-4 with all updates applied (I even tried on the newer acpi-is-busted kernel). It probably won’t work on rawhide, but that’s not what my laptop has. Monash’s VPN doesn’t work with vpnc from Extras either, so no NetworkManager-vpnc goodness for me.
Then I try the OS X version. And lo and behold, I read that it destroys /opt where DarwinPorts tends to live. In fact, thats not the only damage that it does: it symlinks var to private/var and tmp to private/tmp. Don’t even think of moving var, as err, you’ll slowly realise your sudo options don’t work. Apple+S into single user mode, then mount -uw /, to recreate the var symlink. Bad cisco, bad 4.7.00.0510 release.
Anyone think the following is hazardous?
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Sep 26 21:28 /tmp@ -> private/tmp lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Sep 28 01:29 /var@ -> private/var
And should I be changing it (in single user mode, none the less)?