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Re: chroot and FHS



* Christian Hammers 

| I like to build my mysql package with chroot support and therfore jail it
| somewhere under /var/lib/mysql and link the log files to /var/log.
| 
| I either statically link it so that it can be run from /usr/sbin and then
| live in /var/lib because I don't want to have binaries in /var  or
| hardlink the libs from /usr/lib and /lib to /var/lib/mysql? 
| Without trying it out I would say that the latter way is preferred, isn't it?

No.  Hardlinks doesn't work across filesystems and /usr is quite often
on it's own partition.

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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.



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