Re: what's up with /var/empty?
Hi Chip, Chip Wiegand wrote: 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. it is not about sticky bits. /var/empty is used since OpenSSH 3.4 to chroot the child process. man sshd will tell you more. So, stop sshd (all of them I think) and then it should work Hope that helps Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: what's up with /var/empty?
At 12:10 PM 10.24.2002 +0200, Marc Perisa wrote: Hi Chip, Chip Wiegand wrote: 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. it is not about sticky bits. /var/empty is used since OpenSSH 3.4 to chroot the child process. man sshd will tell you more. So, stop sshd (all of them I think) and then it should work Hope that helps Marc It's also locked schg and you will have to chflags noschg before removing: dr-xr-xr-x 2 rootwheel schg 512 Oct 9 07:42 empty/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: what's up with /var/empty?
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
what's up with /var/empty?
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. -- Chip W To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: what's up with /var/empty?
chflags Chip Wiegand wrote: 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. -- Chip W To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Michael Joyner FreeBSD System Administrator http://manhattan.hq.dyns.cx/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
