Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:52:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Francis Abella <abellaf@allcet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is it deleting files on start-up? Message-ID: <20000619235204.A24422@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <022201bfda65$7eb1d940$2ec40618@wlgrv1.pa.home.com>; from "Francis Abella" on Mon Jun 19 23:13:23 GMT 2000 References: <022201bfda65$7eb1d940$2ec40618@wlgrv1.pa.home.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 19), Francis Abella said:
> I've just installed a program that creates a cache file in /var/run/
>
> Everytime I reboot, the cache file has been deleted and the program
> is hosed.
>
> Can anyone tell me where I should check to see what is deleting this
> file? I've checked the crontab for every user I can think of
> (root,toor,bin,qmail, etc...)
/etc/rc cleans /var/run on bootup, since according to the hier(7)
manpage:
var/run/ system information files describing various
info about system since it was booted
i.e. it's supposed to be cleaned on every boot. Your cache files
should go in /var/db, or some other directory. If you want them to
persist between reboots, get them out of /var/run.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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