Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Yevgeniy Aleynikov <eugenea@infospace.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/40094: Some things break when /usr mounted readonly. - bad design! Message-ID: <200207012015.g61KF40D056803@www.freebsd.org>
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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: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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