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From: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: conf/3605: New /etc/rc not clearing /tmp
In-Reply-To: <199705182130.OAA13759@hub.freebsd.org> from J Wunsch at "May 18, 97 02:30:03 pm"
To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 07:42:46 +0200 (SAT)
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>  > The following lines was excluded from /etc/rc. It probably caused
>  > my troubles with starting X.
>  
>  Clearing /tmp in /etc/rc is a stupid idea from the beginning.  You
>  need to clean it regularly anyway, and unless we ship the system also
>  with a crontab entry that reboots it every night :), the cleanup at
>  startup time is ideally a no-op (since the machine is up for 365+
>  days).  Also, in case your /tmp is not on MFS, you might sometimes be
>  happy to still find this or that file in /tmp after a crash.  (And in
>  the MFS case, you still don't need the cleanup in /etc/rc.)
>  
>  > #rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.X11-unix/*
>  
>  Why didn't you just enable this one?
>  

Or why not put both back in rc with a knob (or two) to control it in
rc.conf? Then we can have both groups happy, and none have to edit rc
to get a specific behaviour.

I came to depend on the behaviour of FreeBSD that clear /tmp on a reboot
and have a lot of scripts that assume it.

Semi on the same topic. What about making daily read rc.conf or something
and then make the regular cleaning of /tmp configurable. That way daily
also needn't be edited locally.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za