Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:10:22 +0200 From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de> 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: <3DB7C70E.4090801@porsche.de> References: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org>
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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: > 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. > it is not about sticky bits. /var/empty is used since OpenSSH 3.4 to chroot the child process. man sshd will tell you more. So, stop sshd (all of them I think) and then it should work Hope that helps Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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