Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 15:03:07 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: mark@grondar.za, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, axl@iafrica.com, gj@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Politics of /var/run (was xemacs world writable dir) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120144742.16778A-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711080248.SAA02354@vader.cs>
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I don't have a better idea, but our /var/run/xemacs directory makes bootup
a little bit more verbose when line #98 of /etc/rc comes along. Should
anything that goes into /var/run be removable in this fashion, including
directories?
1 #!/bin/sh
2 # $Id: rc,v 1.104.2.24 1997/09/21 16:10:34 joerg Exp $
3 # From: @(#)rc 5.27 (Berkeley) 6/5/91
95
96 adjkerntz -i
97
98 rm -f /var/run/*
99
100 # Keep a copy of the boot messages around
101 dmesg > /var/run/dmesg.boot
-Chris
On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * Souldn't it be at least mode 1777? There is also the possibility of
> * putting locks into (eg) /var/tmp, var/spool/lock and so on.
>
> These files don't need to live past reboots (right?) so I guess they
> go in /var/run. (What was the result of the discussion about the
> permission on that dir, Max?)
>
> I see that mule has a lock dir, but emacs doesn't. do you what's
> going on?
>
> Satoshi
>
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