From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 2:46:42 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 572D537B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A43443E65 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:46:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 332 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 09:46:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 24 Oct 2002 09:46:37 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EA8932FDAB2; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:46:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:46:36 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Chip Wiegand Cc: "freebsd-questions @ freebsd. org" Subject: Re: what's up with /var/empty? Message-ID: <20021024094636.GB29294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Chip Wiegand , "freebsd-questions @ freebsd. org" References: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # 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. -- If you cc me or take the list(s) out completely I'll most likely ignore your message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message