Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:52:43 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: carvin5string <carvin5string@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving /var & symlink to /usr/var isn't working, now broke mysql Message-ID: <20040512175243.GF28587@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040512155408.67902.qmail@web40411.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040512155408.67902.qmail@web40411.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:54:08AM -0700, carvin5string wrote:
> rm -rf /var
> I am using FreeBSD-5.2. Everything works except the rm -rf /var, I get
> a=20
> message that it is not empty. I look in /var and see a subdirectory
> called empty, which is empty. But I cannot delete it.=20
See chflags(1) -- /var/empty has had the 'schg' flag applied to it to
make it immutable. You can see that by:
% ls -ldo /var/empty
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jun 25 2002 /var/empty/
Now, to get rid of the schg (or any other) flag you need to run:
# chflags -R 0 /var/empty
however that will only work at a low securelevel. If you have raised
the securelevel -- ie if:
# sysctl kern.securelevel
tells you securelevel is anything other than '-1' or '0' then you will
need to reboot the system into single user mode in order to do that.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#SECU=
RELEVEL
Also see init(8) where the details of securelevel settings are
described.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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