From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 11:48:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10AF37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe116.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.109]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E66443E65 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:48:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shieronymus@msn.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:48:42 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [63.230.78.104] Reply-To: "Seth Hieronymus" From: "Seth Hieronymus" To: Subject: permissions problem with /var/empty Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:49:17 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jul 2002 18:48:42.0322 (UTC) FILETIME=[BCD54320:01C22E8B] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a problem. When upgrading my openssh-portable, it fails to install when it tries to "chmod 0700 /var/empty", which gives the error message: Operation not permitted. The permissions on /var/empty are 0555. When I tried to "rm -rf /var/empty", it fails with the same error message. My /var is linked to /usr/var. I tried to chmod /usr/var/empty, but no difference. I have stopped almost all of the services running in the background, and lsof reports that there aren't any processes using anything in /var/empty. Anyone have any suggestions to remedy this? Thanks in advance, Seth Hieronymus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message