Bug#905242: vsftpd: postinst fails if /srv/ftp is a symlink

[Michael Stone]

Package: vsftpd
Version: 3.0.3-10
Severity: important

Current postinst contains:

                if [ ! -d "${_DIRECTORY}" ]
                then
                        mkdir -p "${_DIRECTORY}"
                        chown root:${_USERNAME} ${_DIRECTORY}
                else
                        echo
                        echo "vsftpd directory (${_DIRECTORY}) already exists, 
doing nothing."
                fi


This fails if ${_DIRECTORY} is a symbolic link. Suggest changing to 

                if [ ! -e "${_DIRECTORY}" ]

which will be correct regardless of what kind of filesystem object is at
${_DIRECTORY}.

-- 
Mike Stone