Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:24:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc cleaning of /var/run Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518152140.9951v-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <355F30E2.35E2B3B5@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>
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On Sun, 17 May 1998, Jason Nordwick wrote: > The line that cleans out /var/run is: > rm -f /var/run/* > > However, Xemacs makes a directory in /var/run, so it > is not cleaned out properly on startup... Why it is > not: > rm -rf /var/run/* We had an argument about that last year and I think it's intentially run without the -rf option specifically to preserve the xemacs/ directory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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