November 3, 2013 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Nvi saved the file sudoers.tmp

Have you ever seen a message like this? From: Nvi recovery program Subject: Nvi saved the file sudoers.tmp Date: November 3, 2013 6:48:00 PM EST To: root@slocum.example.org Reply-To: root@slocum.example.org On Thu Jul 25 18:55:42 2013, the user root was editing a file named /usr/local/etc/sudoers.tmp on the machine slocum.unixathome.org, when it was saved for recovery. You […]

mounting the FreshPorts chroot within a jail

Leave a Comment / ezjail, FreeBSD, FreshPorts, Jails, Open Source / By Dan Langille / November 3, 2013

In my work on FreshPorts, I’ve learned more than the average non-committer about the FreeBSD ports tree and its oddities. Just about everything learns about a port it gets from ‘make -V’. Even this method can be fraught with difficulty. In an attempt to get the fairest information possible, FreshPorts uses a chroot solution, first

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