Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 20:30:01 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see /etc/rc not clean /tmp anymore Message-ID: <19970526203001.QO27493@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705261541.BAA32220@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on May 27, 1997 01:41:30 %2B1000 References: <199705261541.BAA32220@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > Cleaning of /var/run is broken too. See rev.1.89 of etc/rc. I wonder whether we should cleanup before netstart (or its equivalent) is running. I know, it's impossible to find something that will fit every need, but not cleaning old crap like /var/run/*.pid doesn't sound right. (Stale PID files could be misinterpreted by some process, since the PIDs have been recycled after a reboot.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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