From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 11 12:36:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.FiberONE.NET [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC04E14A1E for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09585 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:36:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:36:30 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Chroot and ~/bin, ~/etc. Better way? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everybody; If this message looks a tad familiar, I posted a similar one to -questions a couple of weeks ago or so. I'm just trying again :-) Basically, I'm just looking for an easier solution for maintaining the bin and etc directories in user directories. The ~/bin directory isn't bad, as global changes to these directories are seldom at best on my system. ~/etc, however, must be updated every time the password file is changed, and I update my (ftp)motd files semi-frequently, as well. The majority of my users have ftp accounts only, (thus, chroot is done by ftpd), but there are still a few with shell accounts. Is there a way to maintain ONE copy of /bin and /etc and have it apply to all chroot'd users? Perhaps I DO need to write a script to periodically sync the home direcories' copies with my master copy. I would hope for a more elegant solution, though. Thanks again, Ryan Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message