Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 14:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: conf/3605: New /etc/rc not clearing /tmp Message-ID: <199705182130.OAA13759@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/3605; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/3605: New /etc/rc not clearing /tmp Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 23:03:18 +0200 As Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > The following lines was excluded from /etc/rc. It probably caused > my troubles with starting X. Clearing /tmp in /etc/rc is a stupid idea from the beginning. You need to clean it regularly anyway, and unless we ship the system also with a crontab entry that reboots it every night :), the cleanup at startup time is ideally a no-op (since the machine is up for 365+ days). Also, in case your /tmp is not on MFS, you might sometimes be happy to still find this or that file in /tmp after a crash. (And in the MFS case, you still don't need the cleanup in /etc/rc.) > #rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.X11-unix/* Why didn't you just enable this one? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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