From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 19 10:34:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03802 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 10:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03797 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 10:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id KAA00949; Tue, 19 May 1998 10:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805191730.KAA00949@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dom Mitchell Subject: Re: bin/6653 Reply-To: Dom Mitchell Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/6653; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dom Mitchell To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/6653 Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:29:41 +0100 On 19 May 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp proclaimed: > In message , Dom Mitchell writes > >I'm not saying it should blow away directories under /var/run. It > >should remove any files it finds though. From what I've seen, this > >has to be a two stage process, removing stuff in /var/run at start and > >removing stuff in subdirectories later, when /usr is mounted and find > >is available. > > 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. I agree. That would be much cleaner. > If sudo is the only customer for subdirs at this time, I certainly > think this is the way to do it. Well, so far, the ones that I have come across are sudo and xemacs. Sudo needs it to track when a user/tty pair last executed a command. I think that xemacs is using it for lockfiles. Is there a better place for both of these to go? If so, I suggest that we fix the ports, and keep /etc/rc as is. Maybe we need a /var/ports directory, for ports to keep their own information under... -- butoxy alabamine aliquot aquocarbonic catarrhal bromacetate azoxybenzoic bimaxillary cathedralic Amaryllis abjectedness angiosclerosis blanketflower anhydric amputate brooklike baikalite autoanalysis Angelica Barsac anthropopathic bulltoad bisetose To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message