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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:15:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yevgeniy Aleynikov <eugenea@infospace.com>
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Subject: bin/40094: Some things break when /usr mounted readonly. - bad design!
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>Number:         40094
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Some things break when /usr mounted readonly. - bad design!
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 01 13:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Yevgeniy Aleynikov
>Release:        4.5-RELEASE
>Organization:
Infospace
>Environment:
4.5-RELEASE
>Description:
Here's output from weekly run report:

Rebuilding whatis database:
/usr/share/man/whatis.tmp: Read-only file system
/usr/share/perl/man/whatis.tmp: Read-only file system
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man/whatis.tmp: Read-only file system

THis goes against BSD design.



    
>How-To-Repeat:
Mount /usr readonly and run weekly report & watch errors.      
>Fix:
FIx related applications (makewhatis, locate, whatis apropos) to use correct path for tmp files, /var for data.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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