Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:54:36 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: License to kill annoying syslog feature? Message-ID: <199702200054.LAA11679@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>While you are on the topic of syslog, I've noticed that if a -current or >2.2 system dies without a normal graceful shutdown, the next startup's >syslogd finds /var/run/log and won't bind to the syslog port with a >'socket already in use' error or similar. Could /etc/rc safely remove >/var/run/log cruft ahead of starting syslogd? /etc/rc used to do that, but was broken in rev.1.89. The clearing probably should be done immediately after mounting things. Bruce ---------------------------- revision 1.89 date: 1996/05/08 09:25:57; author: jkh; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Nuke the nasty cleaning of /var/run after netstart starts - it nukes gated's pid file, for one thing, and is just generally BAD. ----------------------------
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