Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 23:45:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Jakub Dawidek" <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardlinks... Message-ID: <3CB3DF85.E37DAB77@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204091210120.57350-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <3CB37C7C.6F6EE24A@mindspring.com> <20020409221536.A34659@blossom.cjclark.org>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > file is created in /etc; it does the right thing, if the > > symlink is read-only, though...). > > Exactly, you can't use symlinks with the passwd(1) and pwd_mkdb(8) > commands as they stand. The commands will bail when they try to create > a temporary file in /etc, /etc/pw.XXXXXX if /etc is read-only. If > /etc is not read-only, the symlinks will get removed and the files > actually written in /etc. "it does the right thing, if the symlink is read-only, though..." That includes if it's on a read-only FS... 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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