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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:47:38 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d var
Message-ID:  <20050302094738.GA67059@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050301225947.GA30024@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <200503012208.j21M8Fi4002801@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050301224647.GY9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20050301225947.GA30024@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:59:47PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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
> > +> 
> > +>   FreeBSD src repository
> > +> 
> > +>   Modified files:
> > +>     etc/rc.d             var 
> > +>   Log:
> > +>   - Remove the dependency of /usr/bin/touch by using "cp /dev/null <target>"
> > +>     to create /var/log/lastlog.
> > 
> > Isn't 'echo -n > <target>' a better choice?
> 
> Perhaps.  I copied the example in etc/rc.d/cleanvar (except without the

Speaking of which, is there any reason we can't merge var and cleanvar?
It isn't intuitive that providing a proper var is split up like this.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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