Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:47:38 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d var Message-ID: <20050302094738.GA67059@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050301225947.GA30024@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200503012208.j21M8Fi4002801@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050301224647.GY9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20050301225947.GA30024@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:59:47PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:46:47PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:08:15PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: > > +> brooks 2005-03-01 22:08:15 UTC > > +> > > +> FreeBSD src repository > > +> > > +> Modified files: > > +> etc/rc.d var > > +> Log: > > +> - Remove the dependency of /usr/bin/touch by using "cp /dev/null <target>" > > +> to create /var/log/lastlog. > > > > Isn't 'echo -n > <target>' a better choice? > > Perhaps. I copied the example in etc/rc.d/cleanvar (except without the Speaking of which, is there any reason we can't merge var and cleanvar? It isn't intuitive that providing a proper var is split up like this. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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