From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 6:44:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F95C37B424 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 06:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13WIy5-000Fu3-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:40:53 +0300 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:40:53 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: READ ONLY slice? Message-ID: <20000905164053.A58560@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 4:33PM up 8 days, 5:23, 8 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.21, 0.22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why is it that when I do make installworld the permission on /var/mail changes from 1777 to 775??? When I reboot to multi user mode I have to change it back. Someone must know where this comes from. Is this also the same reason I cannot write to my msdos slice even though it is mounted rw??? # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s2e /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2f /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1 /win msdos rw 0 0 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 Thanks -wash To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message