Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6653 Message-ID: <199805191730.KAA00949@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6653; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/6653 Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:29:41 +0100 On 19 May 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp proclaimed: > In message <E0ybK5c-00007n-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>, Dom Mitchell writes > >I'm not saying it should blow away directories under /var/run. It > >should remove any files it finds though. From what I've seen, this > >has to be a two stage process, removing stuff in /var/run at start and > >removing stuff in subdirectories later, when /usr is mounted and find > >is available. > > I just think that it would be much simpler to blow it all away in > one operation, and expect things needed subdirs to make them again. I agree. That would be much cleaner. > If sudo is the only customer for subdirs at this time, I certainly > think this is the way to do it. Well, so far, the ones that I have come across are sudo and xemacs. Sudo needs it to track when a user/tty pair last executed a command. I think that xemacs is using it for lockfiles. Is there a better place for both of these to go? If so, I suggest that we fix the ports, and keep /etc/rc as is. Maybe we need a /var/ports directory, for ports to keep their own information under... -- butoxy alabamine aliquot aquocarbonic catarrhal bromacetate azoxybenzoic bimaxillary cathedralic Amaryllis abjectedness angiosclerosis blanketflower anhydric amputate brooklike baikalite autoanalysis Angelica Barsac anthropopathic bulltoad bisetose To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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