From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 15:43:24 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 2F48B37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quasi.concon.homeip.net (clt88-149-078.carolina.rr.com [24.88.149.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D0C43E77 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from there (snafux [192.168.100.13]) by quasi.concon.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g9OMqMV01791; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:52:42 -0400 Message-Id: <200210242252.g9OMqMV01791@quasi.concon.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Reply-To: jconner@enterit.com To: Chip Wiegand , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: what's up with /var/empty? Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:11:39 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Thursday 24 October 2002 01:09, Chip Wiegand wrote: I know sshd uses it by default for USP (UserPrivilegeSeparation). If sshd is running and you are trying to remove the directory you are probably not going to be able to remove the directory until you kill sshd. - Jim | 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. -- - Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message