From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 11 12:53:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B9BC1567D for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 22437 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Oct 1999 19:53:04 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:53:04 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chroot and ~/bin, ~/etc. Better way? Message-ID: <19991011155304.B21479@numachi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Ryan Thompson on Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:36:30PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message