From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 22:17:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19C837B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com (dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com [64.128.185.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB56843E75 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx) Received: (from root@localhost) by dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com (8.12.6/8.11.5) id g9O5GGKu043911; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:16:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx) Received: from ip-24.internal (ip-34.internal [192.168.2.34]) by hq.dyns.cx (8.12.6/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g9O5Fu5u043882; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:15:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx) Received: from hq.dyns.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ip-24.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9O5GxDu096766; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:17:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx) Message-ID: <3DB7824B.8050409@hq.dyns.cx> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:16:59 -0400 From: wolf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Wiegand Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: what's up with /var/empty? References: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chflags Chip Wiegand wrote: > I just finished installing 4.7 and want to move /var to /usr/var and > symlink it, but there is an empty subdirectory called empty > (/var/empty). It is not going away when I try to delete the /var > directory after moving it to /usr/var. It has permissions like this: > dr-xr-xr-x root wheel > Seems like I had to do something about a sticky bit, but don't recall > and can't find anything in the list archives about this. > Can someone remind me? And this time I'll write it down in my notebook. > > -- > Chip W > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Michael Joyner FreeBSD System Administrator http://manhattan.hq.dyns.cx/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message