source: BOOK/chroot/common/creatingdirs.xml @ fb40919

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Last change on this file since fb40919 was 0de816f8, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 18 years ago

Copied the modified 'creating dirs' section from CLFS 2.0 over to trunk

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-chroot-creatingdirs">
9  <?dbhtml filename="creatingdirs.html"?>
10
11  <title>Creating Directories</title>
12
13  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
14  href="../../boot/common/creatingdirs.xml"
15  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
16
17<screen><userinput>mkdir -pv /{bin,boot,dev,etc/opt,home,lib,mnt,opt}
18mkdir -pv /{proc,media/{floppy,cdrom},sbin,srv,sys,var}
19install -dv -m 0750 /root
20install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp
21mkdir -pv /usr/{,local/}{bin,include,lib,sbin,src}
22mkdir -pv /usr/{,local/}share/{doc,info,locale,man}
23mkdir -v  /usr/{,local/}share/{misc,terminfo,zoneinfo}
24mkdir -pv /usr/{,local/}share/man/man{1..8}
25for dir in /usr{,/local}; do
26  ln -sv share/{man,doc,info} $dir
27done
28mkdir -v /var/{lock,log,mail,run,spool}
29mkdir -pv /var/{opt,cache,lib/{misc,locate},local}</userinput></screen>
30
31  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
32  href="../../boot/common/creatingdirs.xml"
33  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
34
35  <para os="c">The first mode change ensures that not just anybody can enter
36  the <filename class="directory">/root</filename> directory&mdash;the
37  same as a normal user would do with his or her home directory. The
38  second mode change makes sure that any user can write to the
39  <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> and
40  <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename> directories, but
41  cannot remove another user's files from them. The latter is prohibited
42  by the so-called <quote>sticky bit,</quote> the highest bit (1) in the
43  1777 bit mask.</para>
44
45  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
46  href="../../boot/common/creatingdirs.xml"
47  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
48
49</sect1>
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