Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:46:36 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions @ freebsd. org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what's up with /var/empty? Message-ID: <20021024094636.GB29294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org> References: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org>
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# chip@wiegand.org / 2002-10-23 22:09:02 -0700:
> 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.
you'll want to keep this directory (create it in the new /usr/var).
sshd chroots into it for security reasons.
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