Comment 21 for bug 9208

I have the same problem.

I checked my /var/log/auth.log and found that the symlink was created at the
same time as network-admin was run by sudo.

Here is a list of files that were created at the same time:
ls -R -l /|grep 2004-11-08

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2004-11-08 21:41 K09samba -> /samba
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2004-11-08 21:41 K09samba -> /sambad
--------- 3 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:43 8
d--------- 3 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:40 9
d--------- 4 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:43 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 2004-11-08 21:43 host.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 2004-11-08 21:43 hostname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 2004-11-08 21:43 hosts
d--------- 2 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:43 network
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39 2004-11-08 21:43 pump.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 2004-11-08 21:43 resolv.conf
d--------- 2 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:43 samba
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 402 2004-11-08 21:43 interfaces
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7739 2004-11-08 21:43 smb.conf
d--------- 4 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:40 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 2004-11-08 21:40 host.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 2004-11-08 21:40 hostname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 2004-11-08 21:40 hosts
d--------- 2 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:40 network
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2004-11-08 21:40 pump.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 2004-11-08 21:40 resolv.conf
d--------- 2 root root 4096 2004-11-08 21:40 samba
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 291 2004-11-08 21:40 interfaces
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7739 2004-11-08 21:40 smb.conf

Hope this helps.