From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 20 01:18:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA22198 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (metriclient-8.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA22179 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA16219; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970520011912.18227@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 01:19:12 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/3605: New /etc/rc not clearing /tmp References: <199705190542.HAA17551@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> <2888.864024652@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Stefan `Sec` Zehl on Mon, May 19, 1997 at 02:05:40PM +0200 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan `Sec` Zehl scribbled this message on May 19: > In article <2888.864024652@time.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Semi on the same topic. What about making daily read rc.conf or something > > > and then make the regular cleaning of /tmp configurable. That way daily > > > also needn't be edited locally. > > > > That's an interesting idea - I assume we'd do the same for weekly and > > monthly? Any objections? > > No. Go ahead, that really sounds great :) btw. what about putting the following > into daily ? : > > [ -x /usr/local/etc/daily.local ] && . /usr/local/etc/daily.local > > so there would be no m ore reason to edit daily, and you could easily update > it with a newer version without fearing that you might loose your carefully > hand-crafted changes ? actually.. this has been in a LONG time... (since 10/19/96, v1.21) and I was the one to submit it (v1.21)... :) there is weekly.local and monthly.local which Jordan had the idea to expand my idea... ttyl... -- John-Mark Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD