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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:46:36 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions @ freebsd. org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: what's up with /var/empty?
Message-ID:  <20021024094636.GB29294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org>
References:  <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org>

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# chip@wiegand.org / 2002-10-23 22:09:02 -0700:
> 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.

    you'll want to keep this directory (create it in the new /usr/var).
    sshd chroots into it for security reasons.

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