On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 06:34:58AM +0700, Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: > After mergemaster I see following messages: > > Do you wish to delete what is left of /var/tmp/temproot? [no] yes > rm: /var/tmp/temproot/var/empty: operation not permitted > rm: /var/tmp/temproot/var: Directory not empty > rm: /var/tmp/temproot: Directory not empty > *** /var/tmp/temproot has been removed > > Why we need to do rm -rf twice before and after chflags -R 0?
It is not necessary to run rm -rf both before and after, it would suffice only doing it after the chflags invocation. But it is much faster doing chflags -R on an almost empty directory tree than on one with lots of files in it. If the rm -rf was only done after, all files in the tree would be visited twice; once by chflags and once by rm, this way most files are only looked at once. So, it is not necessary, but it is a bit more efficient. > Are we need /var/empty with schg flag? It is not *needed*. The schg flags is there to make sure that sysadmins realize that /var/empty *really* is supposed to be empty. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
