diff --git a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/init_pod.sh b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/init_pod.sh
index dc68881e31bd4bf831ca4fbe50dbc665d504b5b5..e89a53f3b5354f92e9e02d5cf68bbedf477bfa91 100755
--- a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/init_pod.sh
+++ b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/init_pod.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ echo "Mounting logs volume ${PV_PATH} in /var/log"
 mount --bind ${PV_PATH} /var/log
 
 # all core dumps will go there as all the pods AND kubelet are sharing the same kernel.core_pattern
-mkdir /var/log/tmp
+mkdir -p /var/log/tmp
 chmod 1777 /var/log/tmp
 echo '/var/log/tmp/%h-%t-%e-%p-%s.core' > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
 
diff --git a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh
index d1406a94023efbf9a92eecd1d6fbd1916ef09706..b2f5ba2f0e465e8ffca1caabf8010629babbedbd 100755
--- a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh
+++ b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 
 echo "Creating symlinks for CTA binaries."
-ln -s -v -t /usr/bin `find ${BUILDTREE_BASE}/${CTA_BUILDTREE_SUBDIR} -type f -executable | egrep -v '\.so(\.|$)' | egrep -v '\.sh$' | grep -v RPM/BUILD | grep -v CMake | grep -v CPack`
+find ${BUILDTREE_BASE}/${CTA_BUILDTREE_SUBDIR} -type f -executable | egrep -v '\.so(\.|$)' | egrep -v '\.sh$' | grep -v CMake | grep -v CPack | xargs -itoto ln -s -v -t /usr/bin toto
 echo Creating symlinks for CTA libraries.
 find ${BUILDTREE_BASE}/${CTA_BUILDTREE_SUBDIR} | grep '.so$' | xargs -itoto ln -s -v -t /usr/lib64 toto
 echo Creating symlink for frontend configuration file.