Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 12:39:40 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: what is /var/empty Message-ID: <3EBA884C.6070307@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030508162218.65341.qmail@web41706.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030508162218.65341.qmail@web41706.mail.yahoo.com>
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Gavin Kenny wrote: [ ... ] > 1) I usually put var in /usr/var and softlink it. only > I can't delete the original /var as there is a > directory called empty in it, even as root I can't > change it's permissions or delete it. What is this > empty directory?!?! It's used as a unwritable chroot() environment for daemons like ssh when they are doing privsep. Try "chflags noschg /var/empty" to make it deletable. Note that there are some good reasons to want to have /var on a seperate partition; you might try doing that (by preference), or else simply create one big root partition and not bother to move and symlink things around. > 2)my xe (Xircom pccard) network adapter is no longer > recognised, it was in 4.4 and it is compiled in the > GENERIC driver, what gives? Take a look at /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, and the pccardd manpage. -Chuck
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