From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 11:50:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28424 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 11:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA28404 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 11:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 22816 invoked from network); 17 May 1998 18:51:31 -0000 Received: from ip64.san-francisco22.ca.pub-ip.psi.net (HELO scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) (38.28.60.64) by scam.xcf.berkeley.edu with SMTP; 17 May 1998 18:51:31 -0000 Message-ID: <355F30E2.35E2B3B5@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 11:48:02 -0700 From: Jason Nordwick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-980222-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /etc/rc cleaning of /var/run References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/* ? jay -- 4.4 > 95 http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message