Default /var directories/permissions in 4.9R

Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko doublef at tele-kom.ru
Fri Jan 23 04:13:47 PST 2004


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:55:15 -0500 (EST)
Cliff Addy <fbsdlist at federation.addy.com> probably wrote:

> I've got a new 4.9R box with fbsd installed by the vendor.  However, the
> /var partion did not get installed properly and I need to reconstruct it.
> I have no other 4.9 systems to compare it with and apparently it's
> different from the other systems we have around here.
> 
> Are the default layout and permissions documented anywhere?  Or could
> someone give me a dump of their 4.9 /var showing just the directories and
> their perms?

/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist

is your friend. Mail back if you don't understand some of it.

FWIW, mtree(8) can be used to reconstruct the tree with minimal
knowledge of how the file is organized (and also saves keystrokes:).

> Cliff
> 
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DoubleF
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