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Subject: conf/24612: rm -rf of /var/run/* at boot should be replaced with find /var/run -type f -exec rm
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>Number:         24612
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       rm -rf of /var/run/* at boot should be replaced with find /var/run -type f -exec rm
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 24 08:00:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Drum
>Release:        4.1-STABLE
>Organization:
The Paul Saab Fan Club
>Environment:
FreeBSD gladden.mouseplanet.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD
4.1-STABLE #2: Tue Sep  5 05:11:37 CDT 2000
root@gladden.mouseplanet.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GLADDEN  i386

exists as recently as 

FreeBSD elvis.mu.org 4.2-FEARSOME-20001103 FreeBSD
4.2-FEARSOME-20001103 #0: Fri Nov  3 20:46:05 CST 2000
root@elvis.mu.org:/b/src/sys/compile/h0h0Magic  i386
>Description:
In /etc/rc, in the function clean_var(), /var/run is cleaned out by running "rm -rf /var/run/*".  If one has created subdirectories in /var/run owned by other users, as I suggest in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22038, the existing approach removes those subdirectories and causes problems when the non-root daemons launch.
>How-To-Repeat:
mkdir /var/run/named
chown bind:bind /var/run/named
Configure named.conf with "options { pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid"; };"
Reboot
Watch /var/log/messages for
Jan 14 00:20:41 gladden named[112]: couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid'

>Fix:
Replace
rm -rf /var/run/*
with
find /var/run -type f -exec rm {} \;
in /etc/rc:clean_var()


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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