From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jul 29 12:53:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA18457 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18452 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA08052 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:53:25 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA23385 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:53:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA03845 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:44:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607291944.VAA03845@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5 To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:44:37 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607290649.IAA18923@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from Thomas Gellekum at "Jul 29, 96 08:49:22 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas Gellekum wrote: > > Nobody will hinder you doing this. However, providing this as the > > default would violate the policy as described in hier(7) (in that it > > requires /usr to be writable). > > What about /usr/share/man/cat?? It's not strictly required. Storing formatted man pages will not happen if it's not available. You can always run `catman' on the NFS server, so nobody would even try to write there. Perhaps it should go to /var/man/? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)