Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:47:01 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca (Spidey) Cc: bsdbob@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linking /usr/src/ to /var/ftp ? Message-ID: <199808211847.OAA29559@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980821080709.11471B-100000@outpost.nada.org> from Spidey at "Aug 21, 98 08:18:13 am"
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Spidey wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Robert D. Keys wrote:
>
... snippage ...
> yes, it's mainly to provide a small FreeBSD distibution site for the
> latest release. I will host some kind of bbs here , and I would like to
> distribute FreeBSD locally, for people who can't access the net.
>
>
... more snippage ...
> > IF you are actually wanting to mirror the actual source tree, tar it
> > up and put in in the ftp rather than link it so you keep a pristine
> > protected source tree in /usr, IMHO.
>
> Yes, but isn't it bad to not have access to the /usr/src dir in case of
> a... something? If I want to recompile something, I must un-tar it, and
> move it! Isn't there a way to just link it???
>
If these are "trusted" local hosts on your ethernet, you can
export the /usr/src tree via NFS. Read-only, of course.
-or- If you trust these users with /non-anonymous/ ftp, then they can
access your entire directory tree. This gives them the same kind
of access as if they were local users with "shell accounts".
-or- Give them full login accounts.
-or- consider keeping the cdrom containing the "live" filesystem
(cdrom #3?) mounted under the anonymous ftp tree.
Mount this cdrom nodev,noexec,nosuid
-or- NFS mount your own filesystem under that /var/ftp tree.
be careful here. Do it readonly, maproot=0, and other things.
(read up on this!) Most of what I'm saying here is experimental
in nature, i.e. I have not tested the ideas fully.
-or- A "daring" approach might be to try "mount_union".
-or- /move/ the source tree into the ftp tree, and symlink /usr/src
to point there.
Dave
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