From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 09:45:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609631065674 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 09:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2193E8FC12 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 09:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1OAgb8-000Mms-D5 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 13:45:26 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 13:45:25 +0400 Message-ID: <50348266@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: weekly whatis database and readonly /usr mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 09:45:28 -0000 Hello List, I've installed a testing system with readonly /usr filesystem. And I was surprised by following weekly report (BTW locate database rebuilded just fine): ----- Rebuilding whatis database: makewhatis: /usr/share/man/whatis.tmp: Read-only file system makewhatis: /usr/share/openssl/man/whatis.tmp: Read-only file system ----- Is there any reason for using /usr filesystem istead of /tmp, /var/tmp? -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve