Re: what's up with /var/empty?

2002-10-24 Thread Marc Perisa
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:

Re: what's up with /var/empty?

2002-10-24 Thread Jack L. Stone
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

Re: what's up with /var/empty?

2002-10-24 Thread Jim
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

what's up with /var/empty?

2002-10-23 Thread Chip Wiegand
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

Re: what's up with /var/empty?

2002-10-23 Thread wolf
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: