On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:39, Oliver Lange wrote:
> Aaron Walker wrote:
> > Barry Marler wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> As root, mkdir /var/empty
> >>
> > 
> > doh! I didn't realize that was what it meant.. heh.
> > Thanks
> 
> I had the same problem. I re-created the /var/empty directories
> on all boxes, but i was really surprised that this could happen
> anyway. I'd classify that as a bug.
> 
> I only hope that 755 are the correct permissions for /var/empty..
> 

I upgraded ssh last night and stressed over the restart step. I went
ahead and it worked. I did not get this error, and my /var/empty
directory is dated Dec 9.

755 are the directory permissions. There is a file in the directory
called '.keep.backup' which has a size of 0 and is owned by root. 

- Mark


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