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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 07:32:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/rc cleaning of /var/run
Message-ID:  <199805190532.HAA17756@internal>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518152140.9951v-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "May 18, 98 03:24:14 pm"

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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.

So I would suggest adding >/dev/null 2>&1

The error message during boot annoyed me as well...

	-Andre

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