From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 05:28:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1971D106566B for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 05:28:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505a.appriver.com [98.129.35.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA798FC19 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 05:28:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.15 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht02.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G179 G180 G181 G182 G186 G187 G198 G285 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.15] (HELO ht02.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 35579519; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:28:44 -0500 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.132]) by ht02.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.15]) with mapi; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 00:28:44 -0500 From: Peter Steele To: Peter Steele , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "Tim Judd (tajudd@gmail.com)" Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 00:28:40 -0500 Thread-Topic: How customized can an mfsroot be? Thread-Index: AcrVIlTFT2t420LwQyO+CEbwT5me/AAD7XxwABhNa0AAH82hcA== Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FDD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-cr-hashedpuzzle: y8o= B+E1 CJ3u C11O GgsU GqOS Ni67 NxrS OMn8 ONRh PZUJ RVue TMJA UX4t VOYM VieB; 2; ZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAtAHEAdQBlAHMAdABpAG8AbgBzAEAAZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAuAG8AcgBnADsAdABhAGoAdQBkAGQAQABnAG0AYQBpAGwALgBjAG8AbQA=; Sosha1_v1; 7; {67D9B594-01FA-428D-B776-01390B9975BA}; cABzAHQAZQBlAGwAZQBAAG0AYQB4AGkAcwBjAGEAbABlAC4AYwBvAG0A; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:28:40 GMT; UgBFADoAIABIAG8AdwAgAGMAdQBzAHQAbwBtAGkAegBlAGQAIABjAGEAbgAgAGEAbgAgAG0AZgBzAHIAbwBvAHQAIABiAGUAPwA= x-cr-puzzleid: {67D9B594-01FA-428D-B776-01390B9975BA} acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Subject: RE: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:28:48 -0000 >What incidentally does /var get populated with? Our image has a custom dir= ectory under /var but this did not show up in the MFS versions of this dire= ctory. I can get >around this but I wonder what else might not be included? I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks like = what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory structure but= no data. Is there a solution to this? Can I get /var to be populated with = the full contents of the real /var?