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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: bin/6653 
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>  I just think that it would be much simpler to blow it all away in
>  one operation, and expect things needed subdirs to make them again.
>  
>  If sudo is the only customer for subdirs at this time, I certainly
>  think this is the way to do it.

sudo, *.pid (non-root) are candidates.

What about

cd /var/run
rm -f *
for dir in *
do
	rm -f $dir/*
done

Also, what is the purpose of /var/preserve, please?  Would that be a 
better place to locate ntp.drift, rather than /etc?


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