Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:51:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: lahaye@snu.ac.kr (Rob Lahaye) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster: "schg" flag for temproot/var/emtpy ?? Message-ID: <200309141551.h8EFpGYu005148@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3F643029.3000708@snu.ac.kr> from "Rob Lahaye" at Sep 14, 2003 06:08:57 PM
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> > Hi, > > I am trying to learn the buildworld and mergemaster process from the Handbook. > > The handbook says: > > [...] > To begin simply type mergemaster at your prompt, and watch it start going. > [..] > > SO I did type mergemaster and all went well. > > Decided then to remove the temproot directory, but failed! > > # rm -rf /var/tmp/temproot > rm: /var/tmp/temproot/var/empty: Operation not permitted > rm: /var/tmp/temproot/var: Directory not empty > rm: /var/tmp/temproot/: Directory not empty > > Took me a long while to figure out the /var/tmp/temproot/var/empty direcoty > has the schg flag set. Very, very confusing. > Is there any reason why it is like that? > If not, then do not create the empty directory with schg !! Because /var/empty should not be deleted. Some programs use it. I don't know about that particilar variation. ////jerry > > Regards, > Rob.
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