Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:01:01 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: misc/4723: /etc/rc complains during boot when sudo was used Message-ID: <199710090001.IAA23016@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 20:03:21 %2B1000." <199710081003.UAA02181@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > Change "rm -f /var/run/*" to "rm -f /var/run/* 2>/dev/null"
> > > in /etc/rc
> >
> > find /var/run -type f -delete
>
> This still leaves garbage directories and fifos, etc.
>
> Removing of everything in /var/run was broken in rev.1.89 for bogus
> reasons (misconfigurations elsewhere).
This should be able to be reverted now and go back to the pre-1.89 method.
The gated port sticks it's pid file in /var/db now.
It was originally:
(cd /var/run && { rm -rf -- *; cp /dev/null utmp; chmod 644 utmp; })
> Bruce
>
Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting
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