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 58f66d65888876b299abf31921e15efd57aae7ee..cd8a60fb1457c0d356c9aba178900bc98e80fba5 100755
--- a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/init_pod.sh
+++ b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/init_pod.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ if [[ -n ${BUILDTREE_BASE} ]]; then
   chmod 666 /dev/nst* /dev/st* /dev/sg*
   # creating /var/log/cta needed by taped
   mkdir -p /var/log/cta
+  chmod a+rwx /var/log/cta
 else
   # some yum optimisations for the standard system
   SQUID_PROXY=squid.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
diff --git a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh
index bd871e691ba9cdbbe971ef1f6d47b27e6b38b708..f4fd431ebc962a970e68838acc57e858c3dae365 100755
--- a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh
+++ b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/opt/run/bin/mkSymlinks.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 # make symbolic links to all CTA binaries.
 
-echo Creating symlinks for CTA binaries and symlinks.
+echo Creating symlinks for CTA binaries.
 ln -s -v -t /usr/bin `find ${BUILDTREE_BASE}/${BUILDTREE_SUBDIR} -type f -executable | egrep -v '\.so(\.|$)' | egrep -v '\.sh$' | grep -v RPM/BUILD | grep -v CMake | grep -v CPack`
+echo Creating symlinks for CTA libraries.
 find ${BUILDTREE_BASE}/${BUILDTREE_SUBDIR} | grep '.so$' | xargs -itoto ln -s -v -t /usr/lib64 toto
+echo Creating symlink for frontend configuration file.
+ln -s -v -t /etc/cta `perl -e 'while (<>) { if (/cta_SOURCE_DIR:STATIC=(.*)/ ) { print $1."\n"; } }' < ${BUILDTREE_BASE}/${BUILDTREE_SUBDIR}/CMakeCache.txt`/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend-xrootd.conf
diff --git a/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend-xrootd.conf b/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend-xrootd.conf
index 2cb7237f6a1d31f90be23575b780d5cdb9885591..062bbd45e3f42f4bd5be62fa2602557647dd7850 100644
--- a/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend-xrootd.conf
+++ b/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend-xrootd.conf
@@ -43,4 +43,3 @@ all.export /ctafrontend nolock r/w
 # a substring of '/ctafrontend', so it is not possible to simply export '/'.
 all.export /Y3Rh
 all.export /L3Vzci9iaW4vY3Rh
-