X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/17fd529ca18e46c65105dacd61d9bbe22baff036..2fc21bff0adc27d9374aa6b5f5011ca422df47d8:/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn index 47c3bda8c..48e0079f7 100644 --- a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ +(NOTE: There are artificial whitespaces in the path to shortcuts.mdwn below, because on my first attempt to save this entry I got a message that Blogspam would not allow it because of the length of this string. Also, I had to reformat some of the links, which where to long for BlogSpam as well.) + Ikiwiki is not usable when installed to a user’s $HOME with toast ([[http://www.toastball.net/toast/]]), as toast installs everything as symlinks, which Ikiwiki does not take well: $ ikiwiki --rebuild --setup Testwiki.setup cannot read a symlink (/home/franek/.toast/armed/usr/ local/share/ikiwiki/ basewiki/shortcuts.mdwn) -I am aware that Ikiwiki does not allow symlinks in srcdir for security reasons http://ikiwiki.info/ [no space here, see below] security/#index18h2. I do not see, however, why this restriction should apply to basewiki or other not user-created files, which are not modifiable by committers anyway. +I am aware that Ikiwiki does not allow symlinks in srcdir for security reasons http://ikiwiki.info/ [no space here, see above note] security/#index18h2. I do not see, however, why this restriction should apply to basewiki or other not user-created files, which are not modifiable by committers anyway. If this is correct, can that be fixed (easily)? Edit: Maybe I should have filed this as a bug right away. If this post does not lead to anything, I may still do that in a few days. - -(NOTE: There are artificial whitespaces in the path to shortcuts.mdwn above, because on my first attempt to save this entry I got a message that Blogspam would not allow it because of the length of this string. Also, I had to reformat some of the links, which where to long for BlogSpam as well.)