From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 15:32:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27111 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:32:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from boober.lineone.net (boober-be.lineone.net [194.75.152.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27048 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurab@lineone.net) Received: from speedy (host5-171-246-241.btinternet.com [195.171.246.241]) by boober.lineone.net (8.8.5/8.8.0) with SMTP id XAA08063 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:31:46 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <009c01bd722c$5b4f67e0$0400a8c0@speedy> Reply-To: "Chris R." From: "Chris R." To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: /usr/var Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:32:25 +0100 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 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, hopefully someone can help me here ...... P72 of The Complete FreeBSD - 2nd edition says where to put /var and /tmp # mkdir /usr/var # cd /var # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) # cd / # rm -rf /var & # mkdir /usr/tmp # rm -rf /tmp # ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ..... so ok, this I did (having run out of space in /var) on my 2.2.5 system. Now when I boot various error messages come up relating to no /var being present, example: - syslogged: cannot create /var/run/log:no such file or directory syslogged: child pid 76 exited with return code 1 the same thing happens if I type 'who' at the #prompt who: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory any ideas whats gone wrong? I can still boot and run, and the problems over space have gone so something positive happened. TIA Chris R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message