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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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