Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:16:18 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ramdisks revisited Message-ID: <1321.1079471778@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:03:01 PST." <200403161003.01889.wes@opensail.org>
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In message <200403161003.01889.wes@opensail.org>, Wes Peters writes: >The guy who originally asked for the ability to control ownership and >permissions of his ramdisks discovered one critical flaw in my lovely >rc.d script: chown isn't in /sbin (or /rescue) on a vanilla 5.x system. > >As an alternative to moving binaries into the root filesystem, I propose >the following patch to mdconfig to add options to specify the ownership >and permissions of the newly attached md device. Options added are >-m mode, -g group, and -O owner (because -o and -u were both already used.) >I will, of course, update the man page before committing. Any objections? sounds OK with me. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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