From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 16 11:14:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15750 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 11:14:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15732 for ; Sat, 16 May 1998 11:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id LAA16519; Sat, 16 May 1998 11:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 11:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805161810.LAA16519@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dom Mitchell Subject: Re: bin/6653: change to /etc/rc Reply-To: Dom Mitchell Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/6653; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dom Mitchell To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/6653: change to /etc/rc Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 19:10:02 +0100 On 16 May 1998, Andre Albsmeier proclaimed: > > >Description: > > > > If there are directories in the /var/run directory (eg: as used by the > > sudo and xemacs ports), then the line in /etc/rc that says: > > > > rm -f /var/run/* > > > > Produces an error on boot up time, which could confuse a new user. > > Same as in -STABLE. See also misc/4723. I was told that ports which > create directories in /var/run are broken. However, nobody fixed > the ports nor changed /etc/rc :-( (Yes, I sent a mail to the sudo > port maintainer...) To me, the idea of using a directory in /var/run doesn't seem an unreasonable thing to do. If you don't, then people just end up using /var/tmp instead for things which don't /really/ belong there. Does anybody have a defeinitive statement of what /var/run should be used for? -- allectory calyptro agal artophagous arthrocarcinoma candlerent bombastically aguavina anaesthesiant abortionist anagrammatize anthropogenetic adenia antiophthalmic brevicaudate Bothriolepis capitalizable arracach alestake calculating Amphisilidae Archencephala To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message