From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 18:53:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D00106566B for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 18:53:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com) Received: from mail.r-bonomi.com (mx-out.r-bonomi.com [204.87.227.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B048FC0C for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 18:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from bonomi@localhost) by mail.r-bonomi.com (8.14.4/rdb1) id q4TItfvS029816 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 13:55:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 13:55:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi Message-Id: <201205291855.q4TItfvS029816@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4FC423B2.7020708@dreamchaser.org> Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 18:53:37 -0000 > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon May 28 20:22:58 2012 > Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 19:17:38 -0600 > From: Gary Aitken > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk > > On 05/28/12 15:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > >> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon May 28 14:10:55 2012 > >> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:05:45 -0600 > >> From: Gary Aitken > >> To: Polytropon > >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk > >> > >> On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: > >>> > >>> I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test > >>> logging in as root (real console login). If you use "su -" > >>> or "su root", the effect should be the same. You can always > >>> check the success of your operation with the "ls -lo" command. > >> > >> Nope. That was the problem. I had logged in on the vty as normal user > >> and done su root. Had to back all the way out and log in on the vty as > >> root to make it work. > > > > I'm going to guess that you did 'su root', not 'su - root'. The two commands > > are *NOT* identical. 'su root' does not run the root 'login' scripts; thus > > environment variables (including path, user, logname etc.) are *not* set as > > they are on root login -- this causes some 'am i root' tests to fail. OTOH, > > 'su - root' should be equivalent to a root login in all respects. > > Thank you. That explains a number of problems I've been having. doh. > > > NOTE; there will be issues if the 'working directory' of a parent process is > > the directory you are trying to delete. > > knew about that part > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >