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Date:      Tue, 27 May 1997 01:36:29 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I see /etc/rc not clean /tmp anymore
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970527013530.1444B-100000@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <19970526203001.QO27493@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Mon, 26 May 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> I wonder whether we should cleanup before netstart (or its equivalent)
> is running.  I know, it's impossible to find something that will fit
> every need, but not cleaning old crap like /var/run/*.pid doesn't
> sound right.  (Stale PID files could be misinterpreted by some process,
> since the PIDs have been recycled after a reboot.)

Yes, not cleaning /var/run sounds VERY dangerous since newsyslogd
can kill random process in this case.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




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