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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rivers@dignus.com,
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Subject: Re: bin/6653
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On 16 Jun 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:

> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > - `rm -rf *' may fail if there are filenames beginning with "-".
> > - `rm -rf *' and `rm -rf /var/run/*' both fail if there are filenames
> >   beginning with ".".  This may be a feature.
> 
> cd /var/run
> rm -rf -- * .??*

I think what Bruce was getting at was that /var/run/.sudo and the like may
be a solution to the problem of "to nuke or not to nuke" in /var/run at
boot time.

Danny


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