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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:53:04 -0400
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Chroot and ~/bin, ~/etc.  Better way?
Message-ID:  <19991011155304.B21479@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910111251500.9384-100000@sasknow.com>; from Ryan Thompson on Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:36:30PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910111251500.9384-100000@sasknow.com>

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On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:36:30PM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> 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.

What I have done: create on the /home partition (or wherever these
accounts live) the preferred version of /etc and /bin, and create
a set of hard links in each person's virtual tree to that central
tree.  Saves on a lot of diskspace...

> Thanks again,
> Ryan Thompson

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