Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:48:50 +0100 From: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@dyslexicfish.net> To: ian.freislich@capeaugusta.com, gpalmer@freebsd.org Cc: david@catwhisker.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "broken" symbolic links in /usr/lib Message-ID: <201507290448.t6T4moDa019590@dyslexicfish.net> In-Reply-To: <20150728232054.GG41419@in-addr.com> References: <20150728200034.GO1277@albert.catwhisker.org> <20150728184516.GN1277@albert.catwhisker.org> <E1ZK9QG-000CAR-KW@clue.co.za> <E1ZKAuN-000CK7-MG@clue.co.za> <E1ZKBJi-0000JZ-FS@clue.co.za> <20150728232054.GG41419@in-addr.com>
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Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> wrote: > As best that I can recall, the permissions of the directory underneath > the mount point has been causing problems like this for as long as I've been > using FreeBSD, which is over 20 years at this point. It's certainly > bit me in the distant past. I concur. I always make mount point directories 0111,noschg,nodump - it makes them stand out when not mounted, and also stops accidental directory deletion potentially stopping a reboot from working. But yeah, for 20+ years. I've also experienced problems if a mount-point directory doesn't have +x access. Cheers, Jamie
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