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Date:      Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:59:47 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d var
Message-ID:  <20050301225947.GA30024@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050301224647.GY9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
References:  <200503012208.j21M8Fi4002801@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050301224647.GY9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:46:47PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:08:15PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> +> brooks      2005-03-01 22:08:15 UTC
> +>=20
> +>   FreeBSD src repository
> +>=20
> +>   Modified files:
> +>     etc/rc.d             var=20
> +>   Log:
> +>   - Remove the dependency of /usr/bin/touch by using "cp /dev/null <ta=
rget>"
> +>     to create /var/log/lastlog.
>=20
> Isn't 'echo -n > <target>' a better choice?

Perhaps.  I copied the example in etc/rc.d/cleanvar (except without the
lack of newlines).  Sam suggested the even simpler ">target" which would
also work.  I'm assuming you have a /bin since the line after the cp is
chmod so I'm not really worried.  echo -n does have the advantage of
being slightly clearer.  I'm not sure if this is worth changing or not.

-- Brooks

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