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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:11:39 -0400
From:      Jim <jconner@enterit.com>
To:        Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: what's up with /var/empty?
Message-ID:  <200210242252.g9OMqMV01791@quasi.concon.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org>
References:  <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org>

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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

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