clearing space

[Marty Landman]

At 08:55 AM 1/7/2005, Joshua Lokken wrote:
>On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:42 +0000, Peter Risdon
>
> > How about:
> >
> > #mv /sbin /usr/sbin
> > #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin
> > #mv /root /usr/root
> > #ln -s /usr/root /root

I've run into a little bit of trouble here. I ssh into my fbsd box as user 
marty in group wheel, then su - as needed.

As you'll see below, I wasn't able to set up the link for /root and now 
can't su to root either.

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# mv /sbin /usr/sbin
# ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin
# mv /root /usr/root
# ls -s /usr/root /root
ls: /root: No such file or directory
/usr/root:
total 1294
    2 .cpan                 2 .profile             14 mbox
    2 .cshrc                2 .rnd                  2 msg.txt
    2 .fetchmailrc          2 .ssh                  0 msg.txt~
    4 .history              2 exec                  4 nmap-3.50
    2 .klogin               2 ipfw.ac.list       1248 nmap-3.50.tar.bz2
    2 .login                2 kernels
# ls -l /
total 10857
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel      802 Apr  3  2003 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel      251 Apr  3  2003 .profile
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     4735 Apr  3  2003 COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1024 Feb  9  2004 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      512 Feb  9  2004 boot
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Feb  9  2004 cdrom
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       10 Feb  9  2004 compat -> usr/compat
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    17920 Feb 16  2004 dev
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Feb  9  2004 dist
drwxr-xr-x  16 root  wheel     2048 Jun 16  2004 etc
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        9 Feb  9  2004 home -> /usr/home
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  2736474 Feb 18  2004 kernel
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  4122347 Apr  3  2003 kernel.GENERIC
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  4122347 Apr  3  2003 kernel.old
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      512 Feb  9  2004 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     4096 Feb 18  2004 modules
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     4096 Feb 18  2004 modules.old
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      512 Jan  7 09:13 proc
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        9 Jan  7 09:11 sbin -> /usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel     1024 Feb  9  2004 stand
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       12 Feb 18  2004 sys -> /usr/src/sys
drwxrwxrwt   9 root  wheel     1024 Jan  7 03:05 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel      512 Jan  7 09:12 usr
drwxr-xr-x  21 root  wheel      512 Mar  1  2004 var
# exit
logout
%su -
Password:
su: no directory
%id
uid=1000(marty) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 31(guest)
%ls -l /usr
total 52
----------   1 root  wheel   111 Dec 31  1969 @LongLink
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Feb 16  2004 X11R6
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  7168 Feb 18  2004 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Feb  9  2004 compat
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Feb  9  2004 games
drwxr-xr-x   9 root  wheel   512 Jun 16  2004 guide
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel   512 Feb  9  2004 home
drwxr-xr-x  41 root  wheel  4096 Feb  9  2004 include
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel  6144 Apr  3  2003 lib
drwxr-xr-x   9 root  wheel   512 Apr  3  2003 libdata
drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel  1536 Feb  9  2004 libexec
drwxr-xr-x  16 root  wheel   512 Feb 29  2004 local
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Feb  9  2004 obj
drwxr-xr-x  60 root  wheel  1536 Feb 16  2004 ports
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel   512 Jan  7 07:42 root
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  4608 Jan  7 09:11 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  27 root  wheel   512 Apr  3  2003 share
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel   512 Feb 18  2004 src
%ln -s /usr/root /root
ln: /root: Permission denied
%su -
Password:
su: no directory
%

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>Or just stop logging in as root, setup a user account for admin tasks, and 
>learn to use sudo ;)

That's next on the list, once I get use of root back so I can install the 
sudo port (this was a mini-iso install).

Thanks, this started as (I'd thought) very minor and is becoming 
consciousness expanding. Great end of the week project.

Marty


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