From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 12:08:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00406 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 12:08:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00215 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 12:07:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA25174 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199805201907.VAA25174@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc cleaning of /var/run Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 15:24:14 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 21:07:12 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White writes: >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. > from an old mail (21 April) from Mark Murray: >Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> >I like the concept of recursively cleaning /var/run/*, and having >> >something for each package in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ to recreate >> >anything that is needed. >> > >> >> I like this idea too. Who's gonna change /etc/rc ? I'll fix up xemacs{,20}. > >I'm gonna write it up as a FreeBSD Standard (tm). Soon after, I'll >start committing. I'd be grateful for the support and the supporting >commits :-). Eivind Ecklund (sp?) is on my side to, so far. > >Gimme 2 days... I've actually implemented and tested a mod to the xemacs port to do this. I could easily commit it, but I've sort of been waiting for Mark to carry out his threat :) I haven't seen any commit go by for this... --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message