Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:01:32 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what's up with /var/empty? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021024080132.00e357f8@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <3DB7C70E.4090801@porsche.de> References: <20021023220902.7334520a.chip@wiegand.org>
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At 12:10 PM 10.24.2002 +0200, Marc Perisa wrote: >Hi Chip, > >Chip Wiegand wrote: >> I just finished installing 4.7 and want to move /var to /usr/var and >> symlink it, but there is an empty subdirectory called empty >> (/var/empty). It is not going away when I try to delete the /var >> directory after moving it to /usr/var. It has permissions like this: >> dr-xr-xr-x root wheel >> Seems like I had to do something about a sticky bit, but don't recall >> and can't find anything in the list archives about this. >> Can someone remind me? And this time I'll write it down in my notebook. >> > > >it is not about sticky bits. /var/empty is used since OpenSSH 3.4 to >chroot the child process. > >man sshd will tell you more. > >So, stop sshd (all of them I think) and then it should work > >Hope that helps > >Marc > It's also "locked schg" and you will have to chflags noschg before removing: dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Oct 9 07:42 empty/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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