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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:02:56 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Frans Jaspers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to clean things up after a 'build world'. mergemaster created a 
> directory named "empty", with permissions:
>  dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb 22 01:07 empty/
> 
> - what's this directory for? It also appears in /var.
> - How to delete the directory? Not even root can change those permissions, nor
>   delete the directory with these permissions.

Read the FAQ.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#VAR-EMPTY




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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se